It has been long thought there is still plenty of gold in the old workings that tunnel beneath Gympie, but it turns out there ...

DENVER (AP) — A tour guide killed at a former Colorado gold mine last year fell out of a crowded elevator taking tourists ...

Many shaft mines were abandoned, and many employees were laid off. Zama zamas mostly operate in some 6,000 disused mines, looking for leftover gold ore. Mining companies back then used the old ...

Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.

A 30-year-old artisanal miner died and another one seriously injured after a gold mining shaft collapsed in Gobei area, Bondo ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa's old gold-mining regions, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for any remaining deposits. The illegal miners are frequently ...

Fellow rock hunters tried to save a 50-year-old from Washington state after a medical emergency in an abandoned gold mine in Alaska ... 5 by using an alternate mine shaft, officials said.