Families gather at South African mine shaft where hundreds are feared underground
Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South ...
Zama Zamas | ‘My brother, who is on chronic medication, has been underground for three months’
Stilfontein resident, Thandeka Thom said there were no job opportunities in the area and desperation drives many to become ...
South Africa Says It Won't Help Illegal Miners Inside Closed Mine
Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...
South African government refuses to help hundreds of illegal miners in disused shaft
Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...
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Police in South Africa cut off supplies to illegal mining operation with 4,000 workers still inside
Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...
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South African authorities ‘will not help illegal workers inside closed mine’
South Africa’s government has said it will not help about 4,000 illegal workers inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...
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Marker to Honor Victims of 1901 Mining Disaster at Tuscaloosa’s Bryce Hospital, NAACP Seeks Descendants
The Alabama NAACP is searching for the descendants of coal miners who were killed or trapped for days in a 1901 disaster in a ...
Utah man rescued after 50-foot fall down abandoned mineshaft
A 52-year-old man in Iron County was rescued earlier this week after he took a near 50-foot fall down an abandoned mine in a ...