The hole was originally the vent for shaft 11 at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, an operation so vast that it produced 1% of ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa's old gold-mining regions, where miners enter abandoned shafts to ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Nearly a third of the 260 miners stuck underground following an accident at a Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine in South Africa were brought to the surface on Friday, the company ...

South Africa, the continent’s most industrialized economy, has produced more gold than any other country. The gold rush of the late 1800s formed the bedrock for massive cities like Johannesburg, ...

South Africa‘s Sibanye Stillwater said Friday that efforts were under way to rescue 289 mine workers trapped underground at one of its shafts at the Kloof gold mine near Johannesburg. The workers were ...

South African gold mining giant Sibanye-Stillwater announced plans Thursday to shed more than 6,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce, from underperforming gold mines. The company is one of the ...

South African rescuers have recovered eight bodies after a fire and rock fall at a gold mine in South Africa, the government said Thursday. One other miner remains unaccounted for. The National Union ...

The 260 miners who were trapped underground at a Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine in South Africa were all safely brought to the surface on Friday afternoon, the company announced. A press release from ...