On the morning of February 24th, 1923, a routine ascent from the depths of Medomsley Colliery turned into one of the darkest ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and ...

Hundreds are still believed to be trapped, and the death toll is expected to rise, in a disaster that ... A specialist mining rescue company has been dropping a small cage thousands of meters ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a shimmering trail of dried, chemically-enriched mud left behind by a torrent of wastewater that ...

Authorities initially deemed it too dangerous for official rescue personnel to enter the mine, leaving community volunteers familiar with its layout to descend in the cage. Here, they pulled ...

Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) From ...

Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday ...

Hundreds are still believed to be trapped Wednesday and the death toll is expected to rise in a disaster ... A specialist mining rescue company has been dropping a small cage thousands of feet ...

Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal miners, resulting in close to 80 deaths.

Many say the unfolding disaster underground was clear weeks ago, when community members sporadically pulled decomposing bodies out of the mine ... down Thursday in a cage that was used to pull ...

A court-ordered rescue operation was launched on Monday and more than 240 survivors were brought out in small groups in a metal cage ... Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police ...