ROODEPOORT, South Africa (AP) – Julius Mthembu’s mud-spattered face lit up as he held a tin pan and pointed to the glimmering flecks of hope lying among sand and water: gold. The find meant the ...

That’s how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed to be in the hundreds — have been surviving for weeks, possibly months, over a mile deep underground in a disused mine shaft in the South ...

There is still strong global demand for key commodities like gold and PGMs, which is supporting the performance of the sector in South Africa.

Name of the Project TGME underground gold mining project. Location Mpumalanga, South Africa. Project Owner/s Gold mining development company Theta Gold Mines. Project Description The project aims to ...

In a bold show of confidence, South Africa’s Absa Bank has taken equity options instead of cash fees for funding West Wits Mining’s Qala Shallows gold project.

Hundreds of illegal miners are trapped underground in a derelict Stilfontein mine in South Africa. While the human cost has sparked outrage, questions remain over who is responsible for the escalating ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

South Africa's government said this week that they do not plan to assist as many as 4,000 illegal miners that are currently trapped inside a closed mine. The coal miners are currently located inside a ...

South Africa’s richest black billionaire, Patrice Motsepe, has completed another major deal through Harmony Gold, South Africa’s largest gold producer, ...

Chile expects to increase its gold production by 25% following the inauguration of the Salares Norte project, operated by ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Sleeping next to decomposing corpses and surviving on a foul mixture of toothpaste mixed with toilet paper. That's how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed ...