The company said two employees died at Doornkop Mine, where all blasting operations have been temporarily suspended, and ...

Miners in South Africa are calling for sweeping changes to modernize regulations, streamline licensing and upgrade critical ...

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

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

The South African mining industry contributed 6% of the country’s total nominal GDP during the first three quarters of last ...

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

South Africa's Harmony Gold said on Monday it expects to exceed its 1.5 million ounce production target for the full year to ...

The South African mining industry recorded only 42 fatalities in 2024, the lowest ever recorded. This record achievement ...

I am an anthropologist and I’ve been studying the social life and history of South African gold mining for nearly three decades. I’ve also made a film with and about informal miners.

A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.

Five people were killed in incidents at two of Harmony Gold’s South African mines, the company reported on Wednesday. Three ...