Shaft 11 in the small town of Stilfontein took more than 100 lives. Bloomberg Investigates uncovers how the catastrophe was ...

ROODEPOORT, South Africa (AP) – Julius Mthembu’s mud-spattered face lit up as he held a tin pan and pointed to the glimmering flecks of hope lying among sand and water: gold. The find meant the ...

That’s how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed to be in the hundreds — have been surviving for weeks, possibly months, over a mile deep underground in a disused mine shaft in the South ...

A tragic standoff is unfolding in Stilfontein, South Africa, where thousands of illegal miners – known colloquially as zama zamas – are trapped underground. The crisis has brought South Africa’s ...

South Africa’s mining production grew by 1.2% year-on-year, a notable increase from the previous month’s stagnant 0.0%. This marks a positive ...

Name of the Project TGME underground gold mining project. Location Mpumalanga, South Africa. Project Owner/s Gold mining development company Theta Gold Mines. Project Description The project aims to ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Illegal gold mining is growing in Ghana, one of the world's top gold producers. A weakening economy and high unemployment ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Sleeping next to decomposing corpses and surviving on a foul mixture of toothpaste mixed with toilet paper. That's how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed ...