In total, 78 corpses were recovered during an operation to get illegal miners - also known as zama zamas - out of a ...

The men are believed to have died of starvation after a police crackdown on illegal mining in Stilfontein last year. Only 25 of the 78 dead miners have been identified and collected by their families ...

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing executive ...

In continuation of government determination to rid the country of the activities of solid minerals thieves, the Mining Marshals of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have ...

On Monday, officials on site and rescue teams, received a message from the illegal miners written in isiZulu, begging for ARVs. The news that the zama zamas will receive the medication aggravated ...

The miners were trapped underground on Thursday at the Kloof gold mine, 60 kilometres (37 miles) west of Johannesburg, after a hoist used to access the shaft was damaged in an accident ...

More than 1 000 illegal miners (colloquially known as zama zamas) have been arrested across the Lowveld over the past two months in the SAPS’s Operation Vala Umgodi. According to the provincial ...

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But charities are warning that any investment in the DRC comes with the risk of encouraging forced labor and child mining in the country. Nonprofits such as the Fair Cobalt Alliance and academics ...

We just got our first look at a prototype for a novel moon-mining machine. "When you're operating equipment on the moon, reliability and performance standards are at a new level," Rob Meyerson ...

Nearby, mining counties across Virginia’s slice of Appalachia were reeling after decades of job loss. Mr. Stacy and his friend Jim McGlothlin, both former coal magnates, seized on what they ...