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In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala ...

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In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala ...

In mid-January 2024 over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala ...

The defunct mine shaft was discovered in Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, once a coal town. A member of the residents' family later found that they had received a letter from the former Coal Authority ...

After months when access to the mine shaft in Stilfontein was blocked, a court ordered the government to facilitate last week's rescue operation. On Thursday, as the rescue came to an end ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end ... was no longer anyone left in the shaft. In total during the rescue operation ...

There are thousands of abandoned mine shafts where they can search for a tiny fraction of the gold that made this country rich. The government has long vowed to get tough on illegal mining ...

The group criticised government operations such as Operation Vala Umgodi, which it described as prioritising sealing abandoned mine shafts over protecting the lives of vulnerable miners.