One African country is home to the deepest gold mine in the world with staggering depths and intense temperatures.

Running at a staggering depth of 3,891 metres down and 2,062 metres below sea level, a colossal mine in Africa is the deepest and richest gold mine in the world. Mponeng gold mine began producing ...

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

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

Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the ...

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 survivors among hundreds of miners who were ...

The Rescue of Hundreds of Miners in a Deep South African Gold Mine Began With a Camera and a Note CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an ...

It also was the first time a specially designed cage that can be lowered as deep as 3,100 meters (10,170 ... in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, police said last week.