Mining has played an important role in shaping Idaho, but the Idaho Conservation League is working to raise awareness about ...

Hundreds of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, will ...

Down a shaft that plunged more than a mile below the earth in South Africa’s old mining heartland, a man’s life hung in the ...

The McKinley Mill Mine, first documented in the early 1900s, was a small mining operation likely producing gold, copper ... that between 40,000 and 100,000 abandoned mines could be scarring ...

In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of ...

The men say they were forced to mine for rocks containing gold (stock photo) [Getty Images] More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa's eastern ...

More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa's eastern ... underground against their will to search for gold. A police spokesperson confirmed the miners ...

STILFONTEIN - Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) has approached the Constitutional Court in its fight for illegal miners occupying an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein to be ...

While there are obvious safety risks associated with these old mines, experts are also sounding the alarm on environmental factors, as mines can greatly impact an area's water supply or even damage ...

More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa's eastern Mpumalanga province ... claim they were forced underground against their will to search for gold. A ...