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Police say that at least 36 bodies and 82 survivors have been brought out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine since Friday

South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months

The Mining Affected Communities United in Action group says at least 400 men remain trapped in the abandoned mine.

Tragic incident in South African mine as over 100 illegal miners trapped, raising safety concerns.

Police cut off the miners’ food supplies in an attempt to force them out

Phone video shared by mining NGO appears to show dozens of wrapped bodies in underground tunnel

Mali’s military government has started seizing gold stocks of the Canadian mining company Barrick as part of a legal battle over the share of revenue owed to the West African state, according to an internal Barrick letter seen by The Associated Press

The assurance was given by mining company Dalradian during the first day of the inquiry in Co Tyrone.

A huge underground water resource the size of Austria, the Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System, stretches for 87,000km² across Namibia, South Africa and Botswana. It supplies 50,000 people in several towns with water pure enough to drink, and is their only source of water. But the Namibian government has awarded uranium…