The miners in the mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, and water after police closed ...

Many say they have no choice but to go underground and work in illegal mines to make a living. South Africa's abandoned gold ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused shaft, a day after a cabinet minister said the government was trying to ...

Harmony Gold, South Africa's biggest gold producer by volume, said on Thursday it had appointed Beyers Nel as chief executive ...

Aim-listed Lexington Gold and its broad-based black economic empowerment partner Letsema have entered into an intention to cooperate agreement with Gold One Africa, which would see the parties seek to ...

Nov 14 (Reuters) - Gold Fields (GFIJ.J), opens new tab may look for buyers for its smaller mines in Ghana and Peru to focus ...

AFRICA is proverbially a land of surprises. It is not likely, however, that more startling surprises can be in store than those witnessed by the present generation. We have seen a great city ...

Dome Gold Mines Ltd. (AU:DME) has released an update. Dome Gold Mines Ltd. has made significant progress on its projects in Fiji, including the Sigatoka industrial sand project and the Nadroga ...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Eight miners died after being buried under mounds of earth that collapsed on them in an open-pit copper mine in Zambia on Wednesday, police said. One miner was missing and ...

Private investigator Mike Bolhuis says the bodies of two women from Johannesburg who were reported missing on Saturday were discovered at an opencast mine in ... the Eye of Africa Estate.