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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of miners were reported to be trapped and starving CARLETONVILLE, South ...

They blink like moles in the harsh South African sunlight. Some look painfully young. Operations to rescue hundreds of illegal miners at an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, a small mining town ...

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...