Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

Thirteen artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed in southwest Mali on Wednesday after a tunnel in which they were digging for gold flooded, the national union of gold ...

CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized camera was lowered late ... the miners who were trapped while working ...

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

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

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

The hunt for tech-industry minerals in eastern Congo harks from a different age to the products they will become.

South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped for months and say they believe they have rescued all the survivors and ...

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...