CARLETONVILLE, South Africa — A specialized camera was lowered late last ... the miners who were trapped while working illegally in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, police said last week.

Running at a staggering depth of 3,891 metres down and 2,062 metres below sea level, a colossal mine in Africa is the deepest and richest gold mine in the world. Mponeng gold mine began producing ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended ... miners were trapped for months in one of the country’s deepest mines while working illegally. At least 78 miners were confirmed ...

Rescuers were sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines on Tuesday in an attempt to bring out survivors among hundreds of illegal miners trapped underground for ...

South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for ...

At least 60 bodies and 92 survivors had been pulled from one of South Africa’s deepest mines since Monday in a red cagelike device lowered thousands of feet underground, police said. Police are ...

Last week, rescue teams retrieved 78 bodies and rescued 246 people from one of the deepest mines in South Africa. It is noteworthy that, the conflict between cops and illegal miners has been ...

Cape Town: Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a ...