Families of illegal miners plan to sue the government for accountability following the tragic deaths of zama zamas in a North ...

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

A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay reports.

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

An operation is underway to rescue eight miners who remain trapped after a mine collapsed on Jan. 9 following a gas explosion ...

South African authorities have declared their rescue of any miners still trapped in an illegal mine in Stilfontein to be over. Following a court order ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...

Investigators determined that the incident at the Colorado tourist mine was "not attributed to current mine practices or equipment malfunctions." ...