Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The surrounding landscape is devastated — centuries-old trees have been uprooted, and ...

Diversity is the hallmark of South Africa. With an incredible array of contrasts, this country is known for its many ...

Bitcoin mining involves solving complex mathematical puzzles, validating transactions and securing the network. Miners compete to find the correct hash, adding new blocks to the blockchain and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...

she said at the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine about 100 miles southwest of Johannesburg on Monday, ahead of the start of the rescue mission. Nearly 2,000 illegal miners — known locally as ...

The price of gold has increased again today in both global and local markets. In the international bullion market, gold per ounce increased by $13, reaching a new global price of $2703.

Mining is the process of adding and validating transaction records on the Bitcoin public blockchain ledger while securing uptime for the network. This is how the network persists without relying ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved ...

Nay Maps is a South African actor born on 30th March 1989. He is the firstborn of three children born to the late Bishop Simeon Maphalala and his wife. Maps grew up alongside his two younger sisters ...

Months after efforts began to remove people working in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, rescuers removed 60 bodies and 106 survivors from the mine after two days of operations, police said ...

Thirty-six bodies have been lifted out of an abandoned South African gold mine over two days, police said yesterday, with fears that dozens of people are still underground despite a months-long ...