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

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

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

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 – ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said ...

Late last year, a specialized mine rescue camera was lowered into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep mineshaft in South ...

"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 ...

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

South African police say there's nobody left in the mine after they removed 78 bodies and 246 survivors over the last two days. They declared the court-ordered rescue operation over on Wednesday ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

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