Police in South Africa said Thursday that the death toll at an illegal mining operation in the North West province had risen to at least 78. The latest announcement comes as search and rescue efforts ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

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

The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

(Photo: Emmanuel Croset / AFP)[/caption] While the South African authorities maintain that many of the miners have emerged voluntarily from the abandoned mine shafts, civil society organisations ...

Government says a number of illegal miners, known as Zama Zamas, have voluntarily emerged from the disused mine shafts in Stilfontein ... ongoing to rehabilitate abandoned mines and prevent ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally published on May 31, 2018. Not all explorers are relegated to the pages of history books. One modern-day explorer is shedding light on some pretty dark places.

A state Department of Environmental Protection map shows three abandoned mines next to I-80 in Wharton. The area that includes Wharton, Dover, Mine Hill and Rockaway had numerous iron mines in the ...

WHARTON, N.J. -- A sinkhole that cratered a section of I-80 in New Jersey was caused by an abandoned mineshaft ... There was a whole mining world here and those shafts are still underneath here." ...