JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Nearly a third of the 260 miners stuck underground following an accident at a Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine in South Africa were brought to the surface on Friday, the ...

Workers reported feeling vibrations in the partially built structure, and being told to cover up holes with sand.

JOHANNESBURG, May 23 (Reuters) – South Africa’s Sibanye-Stillwater said on Friday that it was working to bring to the surface 260 miners, who were stuck underground at one of its gold mines ...

South Africa grapples with a legacy of mining disasters, calling for urgent reforms to ensure worker safety.

Latest mining accident in South Africa The developing story at Kloof is only the latest mining incident to hit South Africa, which has 561 legal mines along with a number of illegal operations.

South Africa's Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, center, visits an abandoned gold mine where miners are rescued from below ground ...

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft ...

Harmony Gold Mining HAR -1.51% said that five people died in two separate incidents in South Africa on Tuesday morning and that the causes of the accidents are currently under investigation.

A gold mine has collapsed in the east of Mali, leaving a preliminary death toll of 42 and many injured, according to Malian national television and local authorities.

The incident happened at around 10 pm yesterday," a spokesperson for NUM told Reuters. Mining accidents in South Africa are relatively common.

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 ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade ...