The miners were trapped in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein ... labyrinthine mine, which extends 2.5 kilometers deep with multiple shafts and tunnels. Authorities resumed rescue ...

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South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits. According ...

The tragedy at Buffelsfontein is a symptom of deeper systemic failures within South Africa’s governance and mining sectors. Disused shafts like those at Buffelsfontein have become sites of ...

A map of a gold mine in Buffelsfontein, South Africa ... many of the miners are too weak or ill to climb out. The mine is 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) deep and has multiple shafts, many levels ...

The miners were working up to 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles ... and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein mine were from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and ...

The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ... Activists warned that hundreds of miners were trapped up to 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) underground and desperately needed food, water and other supplies.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at ...