Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

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

African Mining Week (AMW) 2025 – held under the theme, From Extraction to Beneficiation: Unlocking Africa’s Mineral Wealth – ...

"Traditional financing of new ventures in the African mining sector has become increasingly challenging over the past decade," says Wildu du Plessis, a partner at Alchemy. “A variety of non-banking ...

African infrastructure and investment. Trade is increasingly seen as the anchor to alleviating poverty through cross-border economic exchange, especially in the mining sector, during this era of the ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

A critical area in which the mining industry can drive meaningful change is by establishing itself as a strategic partner to ...

A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa ...