The 260 miners who were trapped underground at a Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine in South Africa were all safely brought to the ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and ...

Gold miners have over the past 10 years failed to increase their returns in line with soaring gold prices, but the situation could soon start to improve if the strong performance seen in 2024 ...

On January 16, 246 miners were rescued from an abandoned mineshaft at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, where hundreds of unauthorized miners working illegally in the ...

Four miners suffocated to death while two others were rushed to hospital in a critical condition in Nyatike District, Migori County, after they were trapped in a goldmine.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over ...

The miners have been fighting over access to a gold mine near the mountain town of Sorata, about 90 miles (150 kilometres) from La Paz, Bolivia’s administrative capital.

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long standoff with police in the darkness of a disused gold mine.

Gold miners in the Yukon have made a habit of finding ancient fossils and mummified animals for scientists as their equipment plows through permafrost. Recent finds include a fully mummified ...

Gold miners digging on Mount Kare, ... U.N. calculations put the death toll at 670 but acknowledge that the real number could be much higher.

The miners became trapped underground after an accident on Thursday damaged the hoist system used to access a shaft at the Kloof gold mine—one of Sibanye's deepest operations—located ...