Nine rescue teams were fighting an underground fire at Simmer and Jack Mines’ (Simmers) Buffelsfontein mine in the North West province on Thursday in a race against time to reach nine missing ...

TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – A mine employee has died and two people were trapped late on Tuesday after a fall of ground at Simmer & Jack Mines' Buffelsfontein gold mine in the North West ...

(Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images) NINE bodies were among illegal miners retrieved from the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein following rescue operations which started on Monday.