Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

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

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 ...

Yet while Greenland may be sitting on mineral riches, any "gold rush" continues to be slow to materialise. The economy, which ...

The Mozambican authorities have confirmed the death of at least four individuals when a gold mine collapsed on Wednesday, in the district of Gondola, in the central Mozambican province of Manica.

Six more bodies have been recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa ... Videos that appear to have been taken on mobile phones inside the mine and brought to the surface by those ...

On a visit this summer, the mine boasted flower beds, fountains and an Orthodox chapel adorned with gold icons and intricate ceilings, offering a quiet retreat for miners to pray. By late summer ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine ... Stilfontein mine, South African police said Wednesday, with many more feared trapped inside.