By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie Peyton STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...

A technical team driving an operation to shutdown an illicit mining network sent high-tech equipment down shaft 11 earlier on ...

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

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

The West Virginia University Hearts of Gold Program will play a key role in setting new industry standards for service dog ...

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

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

South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...

TELLER COUNTY, Colo. — An accident at a tourist gold mine in Cripple Creek that killed a man and left more than a dozen ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

While the expansion of nickel mines drives deforestation, communities across Sulawesi experience a mix of benefits and ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...