In Zimbabwe it was believed that if a woman went underground the gold seam would vanish, but above ground women held ...

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 ...

CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft ... Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, police said last week.

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.

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits.

South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies after hundreds of ...

Newsweek has contacted the South African Police Service for further comment. Rescuer workers assist an illegal miner who has been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months, in Stilfontein ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday ... Newzroom Afrika. The mine is 1.5 miles deep with multiple shafts, many ...

(Bloomberg) -- Standing near the rim of a nearly 2-mile deep shaft, Zinzi Tom waited for ... she said at the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine about 100 miles southwest of Johannesburg on Monday ...

According to a statement from the South African Police Service (SAPS) on Tuesday night, 106 illegal miners were arrested for illegal mining at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein ...