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

The vast Witwatersrand goldfield, where the Stilfontein mine is located, was the focus of a heady gold rush in the 19th century. Now the disused underground galleries attract clandestine workers ...

The company recovers gold from surface tailings in the Witwatersrand basin in Gauteng province. The company was formerly known as Durban Roodepoort Deep Limited and changed its name in 2004.

The company explores for gold, uranium, silver, and copper deposits. It has eight underground operations in the Witwatersrand ...

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 ...

It was an Australian gold prospector George Harrison, who first discovered deposits of the precious metal under the Witwatersrand hills in 1886. His discovery led to a gold rush as fortune seekers ...

Harmony said the causes of these two unrelated incidents were currently under investigation, both internally and by the ...

The company notes that the project is strategically located within the Witwatersrand basin, a region that has historically produced about 40% of gold mined globally to date. Highlights for the ...

Harmony Gold as well as Gold Fields, which operates the South Deep mine in the Witwatersrand Basin. Illegal gold mining has been happening at disused gold mines such as Stilfontein and at existing ...

Assenagon Asset Management S.A. bought a new position in Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (NYSE:HMY – Free Report) during ...