Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

South Africa increased coal exports from the biggest terminal on the continent for the first time in seven years after an ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

Illegal mining is often in the news in South Africa and a major problem for authorities as large groups go into mines that ...

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

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

AP video by Alfonso Nqunjana) Mannas Fourie, CEO of Mines Rescue Services, points out the technology capabilities of the ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...