Mining accidents are not uncommon in South Africa, which has some of the world's deepest and oldest gold mines. Earlier this year, at least 78 bodies were pulled from an illegal gold mine after police ...

One of them is Johannesburg in South Africa. Johannesburg is often called ... Just southwest of Johannesburg sits the Mponeng gold mine - the deepest mine in the world. It reaches a jaw-dropping ...

Running at a staggering depth of 3,891 metres down and 2,062 metres below sea level, a colossal mine in Africa is the deepest and richest gold mine in the world. Mponeng gold mine began producing ...

It is so deep that a trip from the surface to ... Despite a number of gold mines closing down in South Africa, Mponeng stays strong with the company stating the focus area for 2025 on the website.

Stillwater's Kloof mine since last night without any food, according to reports, with a major rescue operation underway ...

Rescuers are attempting to provide food to the trapped workers in the three-kilometre-deep Kloof gold mine near Johannesburg ...

Mining company Sibanye-Stillwater says all miners are safe and have been provided with food as they await rescue.

At least 60 bodies and 92 survivors had been pulled from one of South Africa’s deepest mines since Monday in a red cagelike device lowered thousands of feet underground, police said. Police are ...

Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer ... been in the cage as it is dropped deep underground.

Rescuers were sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines on Tuesday in an attempt to bring out survivors among hundreds of illegal miners trapped underground for ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended ... of miners were trapped for months in one of the country’s deepest mines while working illegally. At least 78 miners were confirmed ...