Community members are searched by South African police before entering the mine shaft to negotiate with unlicensed miners underground in Stilfontein, in South Africa's North West province, Nov. 13 ...

All 260 employees have been accounted for and have been provided with food. Chinese college gives Harvard international students "unconditional offers" Pee-wee Herman and the secret, complicated ...

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.

LONDON -- Hundreds of workers remain underground at the Kloof gold mine near Johannesburg after a "shaft incident" occurred at Sibanye Stillwater's sub-shaft, the South Africa-based mining company ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to d… ...

Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.

World News Dozens of survivors, dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain underground By Associated Press Published Jan. 14, 2025, 7:59 p.m. ET ...

The 260 miners who were trapped underground at a Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine in South Africa were all safely brought to the surface on Friday afternoon, the company announced. A press release ...

The mine is an openpit operation; however, following shareholder approval, development work started in late 2013 to build the new underground mining operation beneath the current operating openpit ...

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.

South Africa’s second biggest political party, which is part of a government coalition, has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to order an inquiry into what happened at the Buffelsfontein mine.