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

A tour guide killed at a former Colorado gold mine last year fell out of a crowded elevator taking tourists below ground ...

This problem is particularly prevalent in old gold mines such as Buffelsfontein, where a large party descended into the old shaft hoping to find large gold deposits still left almost a mile deep ...

In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein ... An aerial view of the mine shaft where an estimated 4000 illegal miners were ...

In South Africa, illegal miners make a living by trespassing in old gold mines to retrieve ... and 246 survivors from a shaft of one the country’s deepest mines. The government has tried to ...

The small town, once a thriving hub for gold ... mining in Stilfontein, the latest front line in a nationwide operation called Vala Umgodi, or “close the hole.” Officers sealed off mine shafts ...

Often, these crime bosses also exploit miners or traffic people into forced mine work. To get some gold, miners travel thousands of kilometres into old, unstable shafts and use basic materials ...

Last week rescuers retrieved 78 bodies and 246 survivors from abandoned shafts of one of the country’s deepest ... In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein ...