The South African government said on Friday it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan ...

The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

Ximen Mining (TSXV:XIM) (OTC:XXMMF) has announced a breakthrough in its exploration efforts at the Brett Epithermal Gold ...

Water from a polluted river in Ghana was so thick and discoloured that an artist was able to use it as paint to depict the environmental devastation caused by the illegal gold mining that has ...

Great Southern Mining (ASX:GSN) and JV partner Gold Fields have identified a shallow, large-scale IP anomaly in Queensland.

A South African gold mine has successfully used slurry pumps to reprocess extremely dense gold-bearing slurry from a return ...

“And for myself, I had roles in the automation of the entire site, production roles in the smelter and all the surface ...