In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
The mineral resources department said “the decision to deploy rescue services was made independently” and not mandated by a court. South Africa harbors up to 100,000 artisanal miners ...
South Africa's department of mineral resources told the BBC the rescue operation on Monday involved lowering a cage into the mine that is designed to hold six or seven people. It said the cage ...
He has said illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year ... and a separate ruling last week ordered the state to launch the rescue. None of the rescued survivors were ...
Rescue operations were underway at a gold mine in South Africa’s North West province where hundreds of illegal miners have been underground for months. More than 50 bodies were brought to ...
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.