As the race for the minerals powering the energy transition intensifies and the price of gold rises, our unique ranking ...

Both major and minor players in the sector are leveraging technology to reduce costs, identify and assess new deposits, and ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

"Traditional financing of new ventures in the African mining sector has become increasingly challenging over the past decade," says Wildu du Plessis, a partner at Alchemy. “A variety of non-banking ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

A critical area in which the mining industry can drive meaningful change is by establishing itself as a strategic partner to ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

African infrastructure and investment. Trade is increasingly seen as the anchor to alleviating poverty through cross-border economic exchange, especially in the mining sector, during this era of the ...

Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped and at least 100 may have already died.