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 ...

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

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

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

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

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

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.