In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

Mining Indaba in Cape Town faces unprecedented challenges as industry leaders prepare to address critical issues including ...

Police have rubbished claims that officers detonated explosives at Stilfontein’s Shaft 10 during a rescue operation.

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

The bodies of 78 Zama Zama's were pulled from the Buffelsfontein gold mine this week during a government-led operation to ...

In South Africa, a government crackdown on an illegal gold mine led to a state siege, causing 78 deaths. Volunteers ...

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...

Speaking to the media on Thursday, acting North West police commissioner Patrick Asaneng confirmed there were no illegal ...

The recent Stilfontein disaster, claiming 78 lives, has exposed the devastating scale of South Africa's illegal gold mining crisis ...

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mnatashe, visited the area yesterday, to monitor ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

STILFONTEIN - The Ministers of Police and Mineral Resources will visit the Stilfontein mine in the North West on Tuesday. It ...