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

By: Jacques Farmer - Managing Director of PRISMA Training Solutions South Africa's membership in the BRICS economic bloc, ...

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

How did Chinese laborers contribute to South Africa’s gold mining industry? This video uncovers their role and the hardships ...

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Feb 5 (Reuters) – Five people were killed in incidents at two of Harmony Gold’s South African mines, the company reported on Wednesday. Three employees died ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over ...

Harmony Gold said five people died in two separate incidents in South Africa, and that it is investigating the causes of the accidents.

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners ...

Six more bodies have been recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where scores of people have reportedly died underground since authorities tried to force them out and seal the mine ...

The South African mining industry contributed 6% of the country ... owing to anxieties about the Chinese economy. Only gold had soared, by 35%. The PGM sector had shed 14 248 jobs during the ...

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.