The company said two employees died at Doornkop Mine, where all blasting operations have been temporarily suspended, and ...

The world’s most obnoxious bully has, in South Africa, picked on one of the smallest players he can find — we can’t ignore ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...

A battery storage facility at the southern end of San Luis Obispo County is nearing completion. Following Moss Landing fire, some Nipomo residents are asking the county to put it on pause.

A 2022 satellite photo shows a shimmering trail of dried, chemically-enriched mud left behind by a torrent of wastewater that ...

In Zimbabwe it was believed that if a woman went underground the gold seam would vanish, but above ground women held ...

While load shedding remains suspended, Eskom is implementing load reduction during morning and evening peak hours.

South Africa lost more than $3 billion in gold to the illicit trade last year. Police forces launched an operation — dubbed "Close the Hole" — in late 2023 to clamp down on illegal mining by ...

The death toll of illegal miners at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa rose to 78 on Wednesday, according to a workers union. The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at ... he told Reuters. Illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year ...

South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies after hundreds of ...

A monthslong police intervention to coax workers from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has ended with 87 workers declared dead, authorities confirmed Thursday. More than 240 survivors have ...