Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

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

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in ...

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...

The miners are in a standoff with police, who have blocked their supplies of food and water and are trying to force them out ...

The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

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

By Thando Hlophe STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck ...

Sri Lanka election results: President Dissanayake's NPP headed for landslide victory Sri Lanka's National People's Power (NPP) party, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, is poised to win a ...

Researchers at New York University have devised a mathematical approach to predict the structures of crystals—a critical step in developing many medicines and electronic devices—in a matter of ...