South African police lowered a camera down more than 1.5 km underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by ...

Authorities now believe that nearly 2,000 miners had been underground working illegally at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...

Environmentalist Justin Landry Chekoua says he’s shocked by images of century-old trees uprooted and rivers contaminated in ...

South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...

Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines in an attempt to bring out survivors ...

A total of 246 survivors were rescued in a court-ordered operation but were immediately arrested for illegal mining.

TELLER COUNTY, Colo. — An accident at a tourist gold mine in Cripple Creek that killed a man and left more than a dozen ...

A newly passed bill will take effect in Wyoming next month, which provides a new way for old windmill blades to be disposed in old, unused coal mines around the state.

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...