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

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

African Mining Week (AMW) 2025 – held under the theme, From Extraction to Beneficiation: Unlocking Africa’s Mineral Wealth – ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

As the race for the minerals powering the energy transition intensifies and the price of gold rises, our unique ranking ...

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

JOHANNESBURG/ LONDON (Reuters) - Africa's biggest copper producers, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, are working ...

"Traditional financing of new ventures in the African mining sector has become increasingly challenging over the past decade," says Wildu du Plessis, a partner at Alchemy. “A variety of non-banking ...

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...

Both major and minor players in the sector are leveraging technology to reduce costs, identify and assess new deposits, and ...

Foreign mining companies are turning to arbitration as African governments enforce stricter regulations, revoke licenses, and ...