Union president Mametlwe Sebei said that miners — possibly dead, injured or too weak to reach Shaft 11 — were still trapped in Shaft 10 when the alleged explosion occurred.

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

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

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 ...

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Bitcoin mining involves solving complex mathematical puzzles, validating transactions and securing the network. Miners compete to find the correct hash, adding new blocks to the blockchain and ...