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

The military’s murderous tactics in defence of the mining giant’s profits caused outrage, with people taking to the streets ...

Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

Australia-headquartered Coronado Global Resources expects a rebound in steel production and consumption outside of China this year, driven by recovering industrial activity and trade policies aimed at ...

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...

JOHANNESBURG - The Department of Mineral Resources closes on average about 40 mining shafts that illegal miners exploit. This ...

Hundreds of illegal miners are trapped underground and more than 100 are believed to have died in one of South Africa's ...

South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A coal miner has died following a fire at a colliery in southern Poland, hospital authorities said Thursday. The victim was among 16 miners hurt at the Knurow-Szczyglowice ...

Sabelo Mnguni, a spokesman for the Mining Affected Communities United in Action Group, told The Associated Press that a cellphone sent to the surface with some rescued miners on Friday had two ...