A tragic standoff is unfolding in Stilfontein, South Africa, where thousands of illegal miners – known colloquially as zama zamas – are trapped underground. The crisis has brought South Africa’s ...

Thousands of informal miners are working every day beneath South Africa’s coal heartland, but they worry that the ...

Rescue workers look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Thursday. They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal.

In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of illegal miners—locally called zama zamas (which can be translated as ...

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights advocates and community leaders call the tactics inhumane. By Lynsey Chutel ...

South Africa, the continent’s most industrialized economy, has produced more gold than any other country. The gold rush of the late 1800s formed the bedrock for massive cities like Johannesburg, ...

Despite the current state of mining and mining services sectors in South Africa, the country remains at the heart of renewed global interest. Image credit: Japhet Khendlo on Unsplash According to ...

Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were believed to be sick and increasingly weak inside an abandoned mine shaft Thursday.

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This year’s Mining Indaba got me thinking—not just about the scale of South Africa’s mineral wealth but about the systems that underpin the industry. Mining is the backbone of the economy, ...

Pan African Resources PLC is a mid-tier, under followed South African focused gold producer. The company is the market leader in extracting low-cost gold from tailings heaps. Management has an ...