Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

Thirteen artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed in southwest Mali on Wednesday after a tunnel in which they were digging for gold flooded, the national union of gold ...

CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized camera was lowered late ... the miners who were trapped while working ...

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...

A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.