African Mining Week (AMW) 2025 – held under the theme, From Extraction to Beneficiation: Unlocking Africa’s Mineral Wealth – ...

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

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

The private sector must continue working with government and strengthen public–private partnerships to not only fortify the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African police are hunting a gang leader from Lesotho believed to have controlled operations at ...

"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 ...

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 ...

In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

The theme of the February 2025 Mining Indaba, Futureproofing Mining Today, underscores the urgency of aligning policy, ...

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 ...

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