Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of miners were reported to be trapped and starving CARLETONVILLE, South ...
A total of eight illegal miners were killed and one seriously injured, last weekend, after a group of about 60 attempted to forcibly enter the Deep Decline area of the AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine, ...
A deadly clash between small-scale miners and military officers guarding AngloGold Ashanti Mines in the Ashanti Region has reportedly resulted in the deaths of 8 people. Several reports suggest ...
Accra, Jan. 19, GNA – The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) says seven illegal miners have died after a shootout with military men on duty at the Obuasi AngloGold Ashanti mining site on Saturday, January 18, ...
Several illegal miners are reported dead, with numerous others injured following a violent clash with some military men in Obuasi. Videos circulating on social media show a blazing fire at the ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa—With hundreds of miners trapped below ground without food or water, two men from down the road volunteered to venture where no police, government officials or ...
"It's because when I spoke to the miners, they told me some of them had to eat other [people] inside the mine because there was no way they could find food. And they were also eating cockroaches ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least ...
Zinzi Tom did not celebrate Christmas in December. Her brother was trapped more than two kilometres underground in Shaft 11 of the Stilfontein mine, along with hundreds of other illegal miners.She ...
Despite the advancing Russian forces and continuous shelling, the mine and the miners who kept working until the last moment, and Metinvest, the company operating the mine, offered miners extra pay to ...
For years, Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold Corp. has seen its acquisition of a major gold mine in the West African nation of Mali pay off big time. Back To Top ...