A wedding band, a cell-phone circuit board, and an investment coin may all contain gold ... A History of Mining in South Africa.” The yield was more than five hundred times richer than a usual ...

Two-hundred and sixty miners got stuck underground in a South Africa gold mine after a hoist system used to access a shaft ...

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, police pulled out 60 bodies as part of a search-and-rescue ...

In South Africa, workers at illegal gold mines like these are known as "zama-zamas," meaning "one who takes a chance" in the Zulu language. Over the past several weeks, the zama-zamas at ...

“Ruthless toward the Zama Zamas and community.” As the mining industry shrank in South Africa and mine owners began to abandon unprofitable sites, Zama Zamas started digging through what ...

More than 100 people have died after being trapped for months beneath an abandoned mine in South Africa. The men had been illegally mining in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, in the north ...

Thousands of miners, many hailing from other countries, are said to be illegally operating abandoned mine shafts in mineral-rich South Africa. The ruling ANC is avoiding a coalition government ...

Even gold coin fabrication expansion was not attributable to ... Given our mineral endowment, the number of new greenfield mining operations in South Africa is disappointing. It would be a tragedy if ...

Many say they have no choice but to go underground and work in illegal mines to make a living. South Africa's abandoned gold mines are often targeted by illegal miners looking for gold and other ...