The need for local beneficiation intensifies against the backdrop of a mining sector under pressure. Last year, the South ...

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food ... were left to die in one of the most horrific displays of state willful negligence in ...

Months after South Africa’s government ... unsafe conditions at mines that have been abandoned by mining companies because of economic and other factors. Police said most of those arrested ...

"These miners, many of them undocumented and desperate workers from Mozambique and other Southern African countries, were left to die in one of the most ... illegal mining cost South Africa ...