A community rescue effort to help illegal miners trapped in a mine shaft in South Africa emerged after police said they ...

The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

The miners in a mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities.

Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

Mercury is increasingly being used to extract gold by miners digging on a massive scale ... This is the term used by locals to describe the illegal mining taking place at thousands of sites ...

Thousands of former coal miners will get pension pay outs after years of campaigning. They will get a total of £1.5bn, a rise of about 32% each and a boost to their pensions kept from them since ...

Read more about Cryptonews Russia’s Energy Ministry says it will ban crypto mining in “some” regions, with crackdowns on “illegal” miners intensifying in Siberia. Yevgeny Grabchak, the Deputy Minister ...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Eight miners died after being buried under mounds of earth that collapsed on them in an open-pit copper mine in Zambia on Wednesday, police said. One miner was missing and ...