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

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

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

Authorities now believe that nearly 2,000 miners had been underground working illegally at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ...

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 ...

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

An investigation into last year’s accident that left 12 people trapped, 4 injured and 1 dead in the Mollie Kathleen Mine in ...

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

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether ...

The Teller County tourist mine that was the scene of a deadly operating accident last year is cleared to reopen, the state agency responsible for regulating the industry announced Wednesday.