The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

It is believed that the rockfall at Blyvoor Gold mine was triggered by an earthquake close to Carletonville on Thursday ...

About a year after Ezra’s find, the mining town of Randsburg sprang up around a big gold find — the town and the mine named optimistically for the immense Witwatersrand gold fields in South ...

Aim-listed gold exploration and development company Lexington Gold has established a maiden Joint Ore Reserve Committee (Jorc) exploration target for the group's Bothaville project, in South Africa’s ...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Blyvoor gold mine, the restarted underground Witwatersrand gold mine west of Johannesburg, is on the way back up. South African mining company Aurous Resources ...

Its nickname, “City of Gold”, dates back to the 1880s when gold was discovered under the Witwatersrand hills. That gold rush put Johannesburg on the map, attracting thousands of fortune ...

About a year after Ezra’s find, the mining town of Randsburg sprang up around a big gold find — the town and the mine named optimistically for the immense Witwatersrand gold fields in South Africa. In ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft is just one of 6 000 that have been abandoned by South Africa's gold extraction companies.