A map of a gold mine in Buffelsfontein, South Africa: Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving groups of ...

A map of a gold mine in Buffelsfontein, South Africa: Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving groups of ...

South African engineering innovation was put on the map after world-first rescue technology was used to save 246 lives in the ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has ... to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ...

Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...

Illegal Mining Ringleader Escaped During South Africa Disaster With Help From ... 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine southwest of Johannesburg, police ...

A team of 402 illegal miners became trapped in the depths of Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa but only 324 of them emerged when they were pulled out. Seventy-eight of them met a grim fate ...

Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ... Illegal mining is rife at some of South Africa’s approximately 6,000 disused or abandoned mines where ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...