As the race for the minerals powering the energy transition intensifies and the price of gold rises, our unique ranking ...

African Mining Week (AMW) 2025 – held under the theme, From Extraction to Beneficiation: Unlocking Africa’s Mineral Wealth – ...

Both major and minor players in the sector are leveraging technology to reduce costs, identify and assess new deposits, and ...

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

The private sector must continue working with government and strengthen public–private partnerships to not only fortify the ...

Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...

"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 mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

The theme of the February 2025 Mining Indaba, Futureproofing Mining Today, underscores the urgency of aligning policy, ...

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