The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

Johannesburg: A total of 118 illegal miners were brought to the surface during rescue operations at an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein in South Africa's North West Province, with 36 confirmed ...

(250114) -- STILFONTEIN (SOUTH AFRICA), Jan. 14, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Police officers and forensic pathology service members work during a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, North ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province ... have been pulled from the Stilfontein mine, South African police ...

Miners, many from neighboring countries, entered the shaft near Stilfontein ... must take full responsibility of the risk taken." South Africa has some of the world's deepest gold mines, some ...

The miners who are underground at the Stilfontein Mine in the North West stated that the situation was dire below. The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa also warned that the toll could ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and ...

A PRESS release issued by MACUA-WAMUA on January 10, 2025, confirmed a landmark ruling by the High Court of South Africa ... Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North West. The ruling follows an urgent ...

Six more bodies have been recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where scores of people have reportedly died underground since authorities tried to force them out and seal the mine ...

Stilfontein, South Africa: More than two dozen illegal miners have been rescued and at least nine bodies recovered from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, as rescue operations resumed Tuesday ...