Hundreds more people could be underground following a monthslong effort to force them out of the mine.Months after efforts ...

The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...

Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought emaciated survivors to the surface Tuesday with hundreds more ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

Sixty bodies have been removed from a disused gold shaft in South Africa, months into a campaign to try to clear out illegal miners, police said Wednesday.

In South Africa, authorities have retrieved at least 60 bodies from the Stilfontein gold mine following a siege aimed at ...

South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more than 2 km (1.2 miles) ...

South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...

One hundred and eighteen illegal miners have been extracted from the Stilfontein mine in South Africa on Monday and Tuesday ...

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Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...