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

In South Africa last month, 78 gold diggers died in an underground rescue effort. The illegal miners, locally referred to as ...

Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) protest outside the ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala ...

Six more bodies have been recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where scores of people have reportedly died underground since authorities tried to force them out and seal the mine ...

Global gold demand reached unprecedented levels in 2024, with total demand hitting 4 974 tons and values soaring to R7. 1 ...

“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 ...

Mining research council Mintek CEO Dr Molefi Motuku has emphasised the need to leverage South Africa’s critical minerals resources, estimated to be worth more than $2.5-trillion, to drive economic ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...