On Dec. 26, in the waning days of her tenure, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland delivered a 20-year ban on new mining claims ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

Suspects were found in possession of $400,000 in cash and substantial amount of gold, raising concerns about scale of their ...

Environmentalist Justin Landry Chekoua says he’s shocked by images of century-old trees uprooted and rivers contaminated in ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

Police operation to stamp out illegal mining by blocking food supplies has turned to tragedy as relatives wait for loved ones ...

Kassanda District has more than 32,000 artisanal miners operating at the different mines in the areas of Kasita, Kagaba hills ...

In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether anyone was left ...

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...

Residents accused government ministers of complicity in the deaths of illegal miners as bodies were recovered from deep ...

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...