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 ...

African Mining Week (AMW) 2025 – held under the theme, From Extraction to Beneficiation: Unlocking Africa’s Mineral Wealth – ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

The private sector must continue working with government and strengthen public–private partnerships to not only fortify the ...

"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 ...

In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...

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

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

The truth is, the mining and minerals sector remains key to the South African economy. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find any individual industry that doesn’t somehow intersect with mining – ...