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

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

In challenging economic and geopolitical times, investors bet on gold for its ability to store value. Gold prices hit record ...

The Provincial Government of Davao Oriental has deputized the police and military to arrest people involved in illegal mining ...

Four persons have been arrested by the Ebonyi State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, for ...

Social activist K Jagbar Ali, known for opposing illegal mining in Thirumayam, was murdered. Four suspects, including a stone ...

Reiterating the zero-tolerance approach of the government towards illegal mining, Union Coal and Mines minister G Kishan ...

Residents of Pichopa Kalan village in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri district were on Wednesday evening jolted by the sound of an explosion that reduced a significant portion of a hillock to rubble.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa. — Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and wracking coughs echoed in the confined ...

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft ...