The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

Reports indicate that some unidentified illegal miners are planning to enter and mine in the Neung South Forest Reserve, in ...

Latin America’s criminal organizations used to make most of their billions trafficking drugs. But now, in Colombia, Peru, the ...

Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South ...

Illegal mining has plagued South Africa for decades through small-time pilfering and organised criminal networks. Many of ...

The Federal Government has arrested 300 illegal miners, including foreign nationals, as part of a sweeping initiative to ...

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 ...

“There was a confrontation during Sunday's action and four miners died, among them a fugitive ... flew Monday afternoon over areas of illegal mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Land.