In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

In challenging economic and geopolitical times, investors bet on gold for its ability to store value. Gold prices hit record ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

We need to know who was buying the gold, the methods used to transport it and who was complicit in facilitating these.

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

Of the 932 arrests, Zimbabwean nationals made up the largest group with 325 arrests, followed by South African citizens with ...

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

Families of illegal miners plan to sue the government for accountability following the tragic deaths of zama zamas in a North ...

There is only so much gold to be mined and gold mining is not cheap. When gold demand outstrips gold supply, the price of gold goes up. The chief areas of gold demand are in gold jewelry. In 2017, 46% ...