Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a shimmering trail of dried, chemically-enriched mud left behind by a torrent of wastewater that ...

President Paul Kagame was asked by CNN if his country is looting minerals in DRC and he said the people benefitting from the ...

Weathered, historic diamond-find ledgers, fossilised oyster shells, mineralised rock formations, salt deposits and old rusted ...

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 ...

South Africa’s mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous ...

As per a report by The Telegraph, two survivors revealed that miners resorted to cannibalism, eating the body parts of their ...

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.

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

Rwanda has criticized South Africa's military involvement in eastern DR Congo, accusing Pretoria of fighting on the behalf of Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi while masking economic interests ...