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

Gold once built cities, created jobs and left legends across South Africa. Now, in a fast-changing world economy, the country ...

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 ...

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 ...

Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were believed to be sick and increasingly weak inside an abandoned mine shaft Thursday.

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 ...

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 ...