Police said they would check that no-one was left on Thursday, when a rescue cage would be sent down the mine.

South African police lowered a camera down more than 1.5 km underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by ...

Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas - from an ...

Three Chinese citizens have been sentenced to seven years in prison for the illegal exploitation of minerals in the eastern ...