Thousands of informal miners are working every day beneath South Africa’s coal heartland, but they worry that the ...

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

A number of African mining projects are approaching important production, expansion, and infrastructure milestones.

South Africa’s first new underground gold mine in 15 years opened on Thursday, aiming to capitalize on bullion’s record-breaking rally. West Wits Mining Ltd. held a ceremony at the firm’s Qala ...

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’s once dominant ferrochrome industry is on the brink of collapse and requires a government bailout. That decline ...

PERTH (Reuters) - South Africa's institutions provide protection for foreign investors in the resources sector, its mining minister said on Wednesday, seeking to reassure about the stability of the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Rescue efforts are underway in South Africa to bring 260 workers trapped in a gold mine for a day back to the surface, the Sibanye Stillwater mining company said on Friday.

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