FOUR years ago, Tanzania’s mining sector reached a pivotal milestone. After extensive negotiations, the government signed a transformative mining agreement that created a win-win situation for both ...

We told them 'we are here to help you, please don't die'," he told Reuters on Thursday near the opening of the mine shaft. "I ...

Police are uncertain how many miners remain inside the illegal mine but said it is likely in the hundreds. Miners, many from neighboring countries, entered the shaft near Stilfontein, about 140 ...

Illegal miners had taken over the mine shaft that was once part of South Africa’s vast mining industry. No longer viable for commercial mining, the men - many of them migrants from neighbouring ...

Thousands of illegal miners, many of them hailing from other countries, are said to operate in abandoned mine shafts across mineral-rich South Africa. In November, authorities launched a crackdown ...

Thousands of illegal miners, many of them hailing from other countries, are said to operate in abandoned mine shafts across mineral-rich South Africa. In November, authorities launched a ...

Thousands of illegal miners, many of them hailing from other countries, are said to operate in abandoned mine shafts across mineral-rich South Africa. Community leader Johannes Qankase told AFP on ...

Activists said the only way out is for miners to make a dangerous trek to another shaft, which can take days, and crawl out there, but many are too weak or ill to climb out. The mine is 2.5 ...

Rescuers have spent Tuesday pulling body bags and survivors from a South African mine where scores of illegal ... Eighty-two people have surfaced alive from the shaft in Stilfontein since the ...

Nine workers were trapped inside the mine in Umrangshu, around 250 km from Guwahati, on January 6 with four bodies recovered so far. The mine is being dewatered using specialised pumping machines ...

More than 100 people have died after being trapped for months beneath an abandoned mine in South Africa. The men had been illegally mining in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, in the north ...

Stilfontein (South Africa) (AFP) – Rescuers on Monday hoisted seven illegal miners and at least four bodies from an ... are said to operate in abandoned mine shafts in mineral-rich South Africa.