A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

The upcoming African Mining Week Summit, scheduled for October 1 - 3 in Cape Town, will highlight profitable opportunities ...

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

As per a report by The Telegraph, two survivors revealed that miners resorted to cannibalism, eating the body parts of their ...

In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

Miners in South Africa, who take risks by entering abandoned mines to search for leftover gold, had no option but to survive ...

Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.

Regularised artisanal mining could also boost the security industry through protection services guarding these mines. It ...

Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...

O ver the last few months, the leading narrative in the national discourse about the mining and minerals sector, has ...