Last June, Victoria Gold’s Eagle Mine, also in the Yukon, spilled an avalanche of zinc and cyanide into the landscape and nearby waterways after the failure of a heap leach facility.

It's a grueling and risky life for these miners, known as zama zamas, an isiZulu phrase translating loosely as "those who ...

Join us on a thrilling exploration of a massive abandoned gold mine with a mysterious flooded lower section. As we venture deep underground, we uncover remnants of mining equipment, hidden ...

Explore Arizona’s ghost towns where mining ruins, roaming burros, and preserved relics reveal haunting echoes of the Wild ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and ...

MIDLAND, N.C. — Midland fire units and other responders successfully rescued a fawn from an abandoned shaft at Reed Gold Mine on Thursday morning.

JOHANNESBURG – A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing last week from a disused mine in South Africa ...