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

The derelict Stilfontein shaft is just one of 6 000 that have been abandoned by South Africa's gold extraction companies.

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

The recent Stilfontein disaster, claiming 78 lives, has exposed the devastating scale of South Africa's illegal gold mining ...

Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa, where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving groups of informal miners to illegally enter them to try and ...

Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving groups of informal miners to illegally enter them to try and ...

At least 100 men who were mining in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have ... Illegal mining is common in parts of South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable ...

Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (NYSE:HMY) is a South African gold mining and exploration company. The company operates multiple mines in South Africa and Papua New Guinea and has established ...

Stilfontein (South Africa ... an abandoned South African gold mine amid claims that hundreds were still underground and many had died. A professional mine rescue company sent a large cage ...

In his statement, Sipuka said the challenge of illegal mining in South Africa “involves the economic system which allegedly lets big mining companies get away with murder in the way they make ...