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 ...

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

Mponeng comprises two well-defined orebodies – the Carbon Leader reef (CLR) and Ventersdorp Contact reef (VCR) – with average face grades of more than 14 g/t and recovered grades of more than 9 g/t ...

MWS was acquired by Harmony Gold in October 2020 and is a gold reclamation operation that treats 2.2-million tonnes a month from historical tailings facilities through the MWS plant. Residue is ...

Oct 8 (Reuters) - South African mining veteran Duncan Wanblad on Wednesday lamented the country’s foregone investment in mining, as gold prices surged past $4,000 an ounce — a record high driven by ...