Brazil has 3,943 mining sites showing signs of abandonment, or 11% of the country's authorized operations, according to a new ...

Rob Hersov has explained why the United States' punishment of South Africa - via tariffs - is 'well deserved' and says 'there ...

A group of white Afrikaners was so opposed to majority Black rule when apartheid ended some three decades ago that they ...

Written by Anchen Coetzee Once upon a time, not so long ago, South Africa was the global giant of asbestos mining. With over ...

The mining industry in KwaZulu-Natal is in crisis, with significant job losses and limited new opportunities, prompting fears ...

The town's dust is still heavily contaminated with lead after nearly 100 years of lead mining and ... based in South Africa.

Abandoned vehicles littered submerged roads across South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley Thursday and Friday after over half year’s worth of rain - approaching a full year’s worth in some places ...

French corporations have survived flag changes, military coups, economic crises and terrorist attacks in Africa ... and entire villages turn into abandoned ruins. Entire communities are faced ...

The brick buildings in the old station were gutted and abandoned ... at the Big Hole — a nod to mining’s exploitative history in South Africa. De Aar, a town and railroad junction in the ...

Now reduced to a ghost town, Elkmont bustled with charming log cabins and plush amenities in the late 19th and 20th centuries – the exclusive community even boasted a 'Millionaires' Row'. Read on to ...

For those who don’t know, a ‘ghost town’ is a place which was once a thriving community but in time was deserted by its residents. These eerie, abandoned towns narrate tales from the past ...