Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.
A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...
About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
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 ...
In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
South Africa’s mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous ...