Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa's old gold-mining regions, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for any remaining deposits. The illegal miners are frequently ...

A tour guide killed at a former gold mine last year fell out of a crowded elevator taking tourists below ground after apparently not latching its door closed, documents obtained by The Associated ...

Mark Archer, a 27-year-old gold miner from Block ‘8’ Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, appeared yesterday at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Teriq Mohammed to answer to a ...

AT LEAST 100 illegal miners have died after becoming trapped in a South African gold mine for months on end. They had been in a long standoff with cops who cut off their water, food and supplies ...

In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in the North West province of South Africa, to try to force hundreds of illegal ...

Fellow rock hunters tried to save a 50-year-old from Washington state after a medical emergency in an abandoned gold mine in Alaska, officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Fellow rock hunters ...

BAMAKO, Mali — A landslide engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them, the governor’s office of the Koulikoro region in the West African country said Thursday.

The Blyvoor Gold mine operation is situated in the Witwatersrand Basin, a geological deposit billions of years old which has produced a third of all the world’s gold. After production started in ...