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

May 19, 2025 7:00 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 hit a small mine run by residents of the Arfak mountains of West Papua province, said Abdul Muhari, the spokesperson of Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency. Authorities will resume on Tuesday their search for those missing after the disaster, whi...

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 1:23 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 siege, which began in August at the mine in the town of Stilfontein, about 150 km (90 miles) from Johannesburg, cut off food and water supplies for months in an attempt to force the miners to the surface so that they could be arrested. On Monday, autho...