Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

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

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

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

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...