South Africa has one of the richest sub-soil in Africa, housing large reserves of gold, iron ore, and coal. It also hosts critical minerals like platinum group elements (PGMs), manganese, and nickel, ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa ... to a different shaft, and many are too weak to do that. The police operation at Stilfontein last year was part of a countrywide crackdown on mining gangs known ...

Illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year, according to the mining minister. Typically, undocumented miners move into mines abandoned by commercial miners and seek to extract ...