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The bodies of miners killed in a flooded gold mine in northwestern Colombia are being recovered although rescuers continue their efforts to search for the others still trapped. Gavino Garay reports.
A rescue operation is underway in Zimbabwe's town of Bindura, after at least 40 informal miners were trapped underground following the collapse of a shaft in a disused gold mine. IMAGES
At least 23 illegal gold miners are feared dead in Zimbabwe after two disused shafts flooded in a mining town 145 kilometres (90 miles) south-west of the capital Harare.
Two more bodies are brought up from a mineshaft in the South African city of Johannesburg as workers continue to look for illegal miners who went missing earlier this month.
Images showing the site in Mali where a tunnel of a gold mine collapsed, killing at least 70 people according to local sources. IMAGES
Relatives of miners wait for news outside the La Esperanza gold mine after a fire killed 27 workers in a remote area of the Arequipa region in southern Peru. A short circuit caused the fire, which broke out in a tunnel inside the mine, according to police and the public prosecutor's office. IMAGES