"Bodies of illegal gold miners retrieved in S. Africa", 14 Sept 2016

The bodies of the last two illegal miners trapped underground in South Africa’s oldest gold mine have been retrieved, a community representative said Wednesday, bringing the death toll to three...The Volunteer rescue workers surfaced with the bodies late Tuesday, nearly a week after a man first went missing at the disused Langlaagte mine in Johannesburg...Langlaagte mine is where gold was first discovered in Johannesburg in 1886...Mining operations at the site ceased many years ago, and the pit was declared a national monument in 1989...Like many old mines around Johannesburg, the pit has been a target for illegal mining, when impoverished men — often migrants from neighbouring Zimbabwe and Lesotho — dig for nuggets which they sell on the black market...