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May 19, 2025 7:11 PM

Landslide at gold mine in Indonesia’s Papua kills six; 14 missing

Torrential rains forced a halt on Monday to Indonesia's search for 14 missing in its easternmost region of Papua after a landslide killed six workers at a gold mine and injured four, officials said. The rains had triggered Friday's landslide, which ...

The government of the Republic of South Africa launch a rescue operation to extract the illegal workers at the abandoned Stilfontein mine in North West, South Africa on January 14, 2025. Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu via Getty Images

January 15, 2025 1:24 PM

Sixty bodies retrieved from closed South African gold mine

South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more than 2 km (1.2 miles) underground where an unknown number of men are still feared trapped, following a siege in a crackdown on illegal mining. The si...

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