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Blood gold bonanza: Inside South Africa’s shadow mining empire where crime, corruption, and desperation strike it rich
The rise of illegal mining in the country has raised human rights concerns and questions about who ultimately benefits.
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Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and feared starving in an abandoned South Africa mine
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP ... that there are about 6,000 abandoned mines and that close to $1 billion is lost annually in revenue due to illicit mining. A community-led rescue effort ...
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In scramble for EV metals, health threat to workers often goes unaddressed
June 8 at 9:11 a.m. Correspondent Rachel Chason and photographer Ilan Godfrey logged more than 1,200 miles driving across South Africa, from remote mining towns in the Kalahari Desert to ...