A major rescue operation is underway to save 260 mine workers trapped underground in a South African gold mine. Rescuers are attempting to provide food to the trapped workers in the three ...

Johannesburg was discovered in 1886, following the discovery of the main Witwatersrand gold reef, which today houses the world's deepest mine. The Witwatersrand, known locally as the Rand and ...

The vast Witwatersrand goldfield, where the Stilfontein mine is located, was the focus of a heady gold rush in the 19th century. Now the disused underground galleries attract clandestine workers ...

We have seen a great city spring up, in what, before the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand, was a desert, a city with over eighty mines, the workings of which extend east and west from ...

The fall at the restarted underground Witwatersrand gold mine is believed to have been caused by an earthquake which struck mere minutes before the incident. According to Volcano Discovery ...