The North West Health Department has given paupers' burials to 30 of the unclaimed bodies from the Stilfontein illegal mining ...

Giant metal deposits, including copper, gold, and silver, have been discovered in the Andes; Filo del Sol could transform ...

A single drill hole in Finland has unearthed a significant gold deposit, sending shockwaves through the global markets in ...

A single drill hole in Finland has unearthed a significant gold deposit, sending shockwaves through the global markets in what could likely be a new international gold rush.

Unexpected gold discovery in Ukkolanvaara (Ilomantsi) thanks to drilling, reinforces mining potential, according to Endomines ...

The most shocking thing for Jonathan, who had endured six gruelling months living and working underground in an abandoned South African gold mine, was the abuse he witnessed being meted out to ...

Tsoaeli resurfaced from a shaft at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine on 15 January during a government-sanctioned rescue mission to retrieve illegal miners, known as zama zamas. However, he managed to ...

Andrew Grant has received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Benjamin Ofosu-Atuahene has received funding in the form of an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

Cape Town: Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a ...

A team of 402 illegal miners became trapped in the depths of Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa but only 324 of them emerged when they were pulled out. Seventy-eight of them met a grim fate ...

Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further jeopardize the miners’ lives, and the incendiary language used by public ...

At least 87 miners died in the monthslong standoff between police and the miners who were trapped while working illegally in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, police said last week.