Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

Libya holds the largest foreign exchange and gold reserves in Africa, according to Global Firepower, followed by Algeria and ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

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

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

In South Africa, a months-long standoff between police and illegal gold miners has resulted in over 100 deaths. This surge in ...

South African police say there's nobody left in the ... when he first told her he'd be going down into the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein to mine illegally.

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

she said at the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine about 100 miles southwest ... Almost a third of the labor force — and half of South Africa’s young people — are unemployed, with some ...

An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe Authorities have evidence of his involvement ...