Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa's old gold-mining regions, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for any remaining deposits. The illegal miners are frequently ...

The Blyvoor Gold mine operation is situated in the Witwatersrand Basin, a geological deposit billions of years old which has produced a third of all the world’s gold. After production started in ...