Gold Mines Go Dark in South Africa. 4 minute read. Alex Perry/Cape Town. January 25, 2008 12:00 AM EST. ... Anglo Platinum, also shut down production at all its South African mines.

A South African gold mine that goes two miles beneath the Earth's surface holds far more ... It's cramped at the rock face and we crouch alongside the miners as they work hunched over in the dark.

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long standoff with police in the darkness of a disused gold mine.

Within corporate South Africa, the 31-member Energy Intensive Users’ Group comprises most of the mining houses and smelters customers; the EIUG consumes 44% of the country’s electricity.

As Mzwandile Mkwayi was lowered into the South African mine in a red metal cage attached to a hoist above ground, the first ...

Police officers and private security workers stand by a mine shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Nov. 15, 2024. (Credit: Denis Parrell/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A South African bishop ...

Inside South Africa's 'ruthless' gang-controlled gold mines The authorities had been trying to curb illegal mining, which the government said cost South Africa's economy $3.2bn (£2.6bn) in lost ...

Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.

The mine is one of the deepest in South Africa and is a maze of tunnels and levels and has several shafts leading into it. The miners were working up to 1.5 miles underground in different groups.

The South African Human Rights Commission has released a scathing report on the damage mining in the country is posing to human rights. The conclusion paints a dark picture: "[T]he mining sector ...