Between August and January, more than 1,500 miners emerged voluntarily from the Buffelsfontein shaft. Others died attempting ...

The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine is one of the country's deepest mines and one of the largest in the world. It is estimated that ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

The standoff at Buffelsfontein began in August 2024, when nearly 2,000 miners descended into the decommissioned mine, southwest of Johannesburg, seeking residual gold deposits.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — The death toll in a months-long standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87 ...

Authorities launched an operation in November to force the illegally operating miners out by cutting off food and water from the surface for a time. Hundreds are thought to remain underground.

South African authorities pulled dozens of trapped miners and dead bodies from the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein on Jan. 14. (Video: Reuters) By Annabelle Timsit.

Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water, and other ...

Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned ...

Buffelsfontein mine. National / 22 November 2024. Local economy reels from police blockade of Stilfontein mine. Illegal miners want the state to legalise their operations as it is the only way for ...