Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

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 mine last year ...

Massive illegal mining operations that lasted for mere months left scars deeper than its brief operations in Surigao City, ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Based on recent statistics, countries mining the most gold globally are revealed, along with their impact on the global ...

An incident at a former Colorado gold mine that killed a man ... were stuck at the bottom of the mine — which is about 1,000 feet deep — for about six hours, Mikesell said at the time.

The Rescue of Hundreds of Miners in a Deep South African Gold Mine Began With a Camera and a Note CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an ...

Mponeng gold mine began producing gold back in 1986 and was previously known as Western Deep Levels No1 Shaft. Owned by Harmony Gold Mining, this underground mine produced an estimated 239.49 ...

Rescue workers have recovered 78 bodies from a worsening disaster in an abandoned South African gold mine, sparking fierce ... for the workers who venture deep underground in search of tiny ...

CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of miners were reported ...

It also was the first time a specially designed cage that can be lowered as deep as 3,100 meters (10,170 ... in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, police said last week.