Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

South Africa’s mining industry is undergoing a fundamental shift as it grapples with rising electricity costs, carbon taxes ...

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South African authorities on Monday suspended rescue operations for an unspecified number of alleged illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine shaft west of Johannesburg due to safety concerns.

The township of Fateng Tse Ntsho houses some 7,000 Black South Africans, its huddle of corrugated metal roofs surrounded on ...

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Illegal mining in South Africa has reached crisis levels ... and livestock as illegal miners break perimeter fences to gain access to old mine shafts and tailings dumps. • There is a cost to the state ...

KHUMA, South Africa — For months, the miners and their families pleaded for help. By the time it came, the mine had become a ... The 28-year-old, a father of two and the family breadwinner ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a "horrific" crackdown on ...

Police officers and private security workers stand by a mine shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Nov. 15 ... some possibly as young as 13 years old – emerging from the mine shafts in a ...

South Africa police search for gold mine gangster 'Tiger' 01/20/2025 January 20, 2025 A gang leader suspected of running illegal gold mining operations in South Africa has escaped police custody.