With illegal mining and illicit financial flows on the rise, the World Gold Council is leading efforts to create a database of gold bars that will reflect whether they were responsibly mined and ...

South African authorities on Monday suspended rescue operations for an unspecified number of alleged illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine shaft west of Johannesburg due to safety concerns.

There are thought to be at least 50 000 informal miners working underground in South Africa. According to the auditor general ...

Steeped in centuries of old diamond history, a seaside city in Africa has been left abandoned and frozen in time for over 70 ...

De Beers said there were signs of a pick up in US diamond demand before Christmas, while India has overtaken China to become ...

South Africa deserves respect. It is a sovereign state, the mines minister said in response to Trump's social media post.

President Donald Trump has said he will cut all funding to South Africa and has launched an investigation into the country's ...

Weathered, historic diamond-find ledgers, fossilised oyster shells, mineralised rock formations, salt deposits and old rusted ...

Rising demand for clean tech minerals drives a re-evaluation of recovering low-value mine waste, writes Theresa Smith, ESI ...

Analysis - In mid-January 2024 over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in ...

Illegal mining is waging war on the South ... Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 400 news and information items daily from over 110 African news organizations and our own reporters to an ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned ... large-scale industrial mining. They come from the same places as did many of their forebears who worked in the formal ...