Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

Rio Silver will receive a 2% NSR royalty, with an option for African Energy Metals to buy back 1% for $1m (C$1.44m) before ...

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

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

South Africa’s mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous ...

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

Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...

I am an anthropologist and I’ve been studying the social life and history of South African gold mining for nearly three decades. I’ve also made a film with and about informal miners.

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...

I am an anthropologist and I’ve been studying the social life and history of South African gold mining for nearly three decades. I’ve also made a film with and about informal miners.