In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

The description, from a miner and from cellphone videos sent to the surface earlier this month, sheds some light on the horror hundreds of men suffered deep underground in an abandoned mine in South ...

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to “smoke them out.” ...

More than 100 people have died after being trapped for months beneath an abandoned mine in South Africa. The men had been illegally mining in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, in the north ...

An attempt by the South African authorities to force hundreds of informal miners illegally operating in abandoned shafts to resurface has backfired spectacularly.

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Over 100 people who were illegally mining in the abandoned mine have reportedly died since the crackdown began, a group representing the miners told British broadcaster Sky News. Arguing that the ...

No vehicles crashed and no one was injured when the remains of the long-abandoned mine crumbled. But, for many, the sinkhole provided a sudden, alarming awareness that New Jersey is home to long ...

Some 18 bodies have been brought out of the abandoned mine in northwestern town of Stilfontein since Friday. But some 500 more are still trapped inside after being stuck underground for nine months.

While most of the abandoned mines in New Hampshire are not producing significant contamination, there are a few that have. (Courtesy of Trout Unlimited) With little attention in the media, except in a ...

Some look painfully young. Operations to rescue hundreds of illegal miners at an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, a small mining town about 100 miles Southwest of Johannesburg, started Monday ...