gold miner

An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in an effort to "smoke them out" and arrest them.

Her husband, a gold miner in the distant north, had vanished.

An operation to rescue 13 gold miners trapped by a landslide in the far east of Russia has ended with the miners presumed dead, Russian media report.

Among those missing were gold miners who had been waiting in two buses to be driven home when the landslide struck and buried them.

Among the missing were some gold miners who had been waiting in two buses to be driven home when the landslide hit and buried the buses, Macapili said.