Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

"Traditional financing of new ventures in the African mining sector has become increasingly challenging over the past decade," says Wildu du Plessis, a partner at Alchemy. “A variety of non-banking ...

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

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

African infrastructure and investment. Trade is increasingly seen as the anchor to alleviating poverty through cross-border economic exchange, especially in the mining sector, during this era of the ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

It has brought up seven people,” Mzukisi Jam, of the South African National Civics Organisation (SANCO), told reporters at the mine. At least four bodies were also retrieved, according to ...

CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of miners were reported ...

The deceased miners were suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released. South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting ...