His knowledge of the geology of these countries, especially in regard to the occurrence of gold, is perhaps unique. It is not quite up-to-date in regard to South Africa; although in the early days ...

THE Geological Survey of the Union of South Africa has issued an important memoir on the geology of the Barberton gold-mining district. This district is made up essentially of the Older Granite ...

In no other country in the world does illegal mining take place inside such colossal industrial shafts. In the past twenty years, zama-zamas have spread across South Africa’s gold-mining areas ...

Sibanye Stillwater, which owns the Kloof mine near Johannesburg, said the workers were safe and gathered at an assembly point ...

South Africa lost more than $3 billion in gold to the illicit trade last year. Police forces launched an operation — dubbed "Close the Hole" — in late 2023 to clamp down on illegal mining by ...

Nearly a third of the 260 miners stuck underground following an accident at a Sibanye-Stillwater SSWJ.J gold mine in South Africa were brought to the surface on Friday, the company said ...

SPRINGS, South Africa — Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, the union at the center of the ...

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 ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over ...

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 ...

Forensic workers at the site of the abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Wednesday (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) A ...