Many mines are abandoned or liquidated without sufficient protection for rehabilitation funds, and the government does little ...

In a world where new gold mines have become few and far between ... with West African nations growing in importance and several now firmly within the top 20 nations. South African production ...

Phillip Anthony Murnane will no longer be the new CFO of Gold Fields, as was announced on the JSE Stock Exchange News Service ...

In a staggering display of cruelty, South African police laid siege to an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, leaving at ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa ... far in a court-ordered rescue operation that began on Jan 13, with hundreds more men still stuck 2 km below the surface in a gold mine at Stilfontein, south-west ...

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

South African authorities began their operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, about 95 miles west of Johannesburg, in November after some of those accused of mining underground ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they ... have been recovered so far, and 166 survivors ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners ...

Two other employees died in another incident on Tuesday morning at Doornkop Mine, 30 km (19 miles) west of Johannesburg, the company said. Harmony, South Africa’s top gold producer, said the ...