An African mine that once drove the country's economy became a ghost town, but now it is enjoying a huge recovery.

Pomona, a former diamond mining settlement in southern Namibia, is now a ghost town buried under sand ... In 1915, South African troops took control of German South West Africa, and the railway ...

Mnguni said that the more than 500 miners still underground were in different places in the mine, which is one of the deepest in South Africa at 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) deep and has multiple ...

More than 300 illegal gold miners were trapped in a gold mine in South Africa for months. Some of them became cannibals underground, as two men have now reported. "They cut off parts of their legs ...

At least 60 bodies and 92 survivors had been pulled from one of South Africa's deepest mines since Monday in a red cagelike device lowered thousands of feet underground, police said. Police are ...

The BME excisise and compensation which runs up to 2031 will benefit ex-miners who have worked in 82 mines owned by African Rainbow Minerals, Anglo American South Africa,Anglo Gold Ashanti ...

The closure of some of South Africa's gold mines in several provinces has attracted thousands of undocumented migrants from neighboring countries, who have arrived to reopen closed and disused mines.

Much of the debate at this weeks Investing in African Mining Conference in Cape Town has effectively been about the best path forward for Africa's miners and governments. The continent is already ...

Located in South Africa, roughly 8.6 miles from the town of Carletonville and approximately 49 miles from Johannesburg, Blyvoor Mine once lay completely abandoned and became an eerily quiet ghost ...