More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned ... gold. A police spokesperson confirmed the miners have been arrested, and investigations are continuing into illegal mining ...

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 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 ...

A state Department of Environmental Protection map shows three abandoned mines next to I-80 in Wharton. The area that includes Wharton, Dover, Mine Hill and Rockaway had numerous iron mines in the ...