South African miner describes horrors as people starved to death underground - A miner who spent six months in a disused mine ...

Stillwater's Kloof mine since last night without any food, according to reports, with a major rescue operation underway ...

With no mining work to distract them ... sheds some light on the horror hundreds of men suffered deep underground in an abandoned mine in South Africa, after a police operation cut off food ...

head of the Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA), had earlier estimated that 500 people were trapped underground. Mbangula told CNN Tuesday that the men had possibly died from ...

The men were arrested Sunday night ... some of which have connected tunnels or shafts. Mining companies in the past dug vertical tunnels deep underground to reach gold. Unauthorised miners travel ...

Large groups of miners often go underground for ... The mine is 1.5 miles deep with multiple shafts, many levels and a maze of tunnels. A community mining group said there are numerous groups ...

At least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died of suspected starvation and dehydration after being trapped deep underground for months while police ...

There are around 50 volunteers, mostly men. Volunteers say ... back then used the old shaft mining process that involved digging vertical tunnels deep underground and blasting off rocks to reach ...

“Large-scale industrial gold mining is no longer profitable ... There’s a term in South Africa for the men who risk their lives searching for gold deep underground: “zama zamas,” which ...

That's how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed to be in the hundreds — have been surviving for weeks, possibly months, over a mile deep underground in a disused mine shaft in ...