South African government seeks experts' help to bring illegal miners to the surface
The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...
Protesters Demand Return of Illegal Miners in South Africa
A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who ...
South African residents try to rescue trapped illegal miners after police refuse help
A community rescue effort to help illegal miners trapped in a mine shaft in South Africa emerged after police said they ...
Hundreds of illegal miners holed up in disused shaft in South Africa. Here’s what we know
Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...
South African police in standoff with hundreds of illegal miners in disused shaft
South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...
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Protesters Want Illegal Miners Returned From Abandoned Mine
A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who entered an abandoned mine in search of leftover gold, refuse to come out for ...
South Africa agrees to rescue illegal miners sealed for weeks underground
Three months after South Africa sealed most exits at a disused mine near Johannesburg in a crackdown on illegal miners, it has now agreed to rescue hundreds trapped underground — many now believed too ...
South Africa cuts supplies to illegal miners hiding underground
The miners in a mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities.
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Police waiting for thousands of illegal miners to surface from unstable Stilfontein mine shaft
JOHANNESBURG - Thousands of illegal miners remain below ground in an unstable mining shaft in Stilfontein, in the North West, as police wait for them to surface. Last week, more than 1,000 miners ...
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'We are poisoning ourselves': Ghana gold rush sparks environmental disaster
Mercury is increasingly being used to extract gold by miners digging on a massive scale ... This is the term used by locals to describe the illegal mining taking place at thousands of sites ...