STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they...

STILFONTEIN (AP): Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers...

While rescue teams worked to retrieve illegal miners trapped in the Buffelsfontein gold mine just outside Stilfontein, anxious relatives watched from...

South African police have concluded a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in North West province, recovering 78 bodies and rescuing 246...

Rescuers have completed a final sweep of a disused South African gold mine shaft near Stilfontein, concluding that no illegal miners remain...

Rescue teams have successfully extracted both survivors and bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where a growing crisis has left many...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Rescuers sent a cage-like structure down into one of South Africa's deepest gold mines on Tuesday to bring out...

As day two of the 10-to-16-day operation to rescue illegal miners trapped underground at the Buffelsfontein gold mine just outside Stilfontein came to...

Rescue efforts at a disused South African gold mine in Stilfontein have recovered six more bodies, bringing the death toll to 15. The operation, now...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- No illegal miners remain underground after four days of a rescue operation at the abandoned Stilfontein gold mine in...