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 ...

An expert warns that South Africa is heading for disaster if urgent action is not taken to rescue its ailing industrial ...

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Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 47, No. 163 (2020), pp. 27-44 (18 pages) Mine and worker Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) remains crucial given the historically dismal record of ...

The South African government, desperate to deal with powerful illegal mining networks, found itself in a crisis that lasted six months at the disused Stilfontein mine in the country’s North West ...

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.

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Solid Minerals Development Minister Dele Alake has urged global mining giants and South African investors to seize the opportunities of the ongoing reforms and improved business climate in Nigeria’s ...

Gold Fields Limited GFI and Agnico Eagle Mines Limited AEM are two leading names in the global gold mining industry, each ...