Informal mining in South Africa is here to stay
In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
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Informal mining in South Africa is here to stay. Police brutality won’t end it
About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...
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Artisanal and small-scale miners delivering transition minerals
Industrial mining employs 7 million globally. but artisanal and small scale miners comprise at least 45 million people across ...
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South Africa criticized for ‘horrific’ mining crackdown after 78 bodies pulled from underground
South Africa loses more than a $1 billion to illegal mining every year and has vowed a crackdown of the trade. There are an ...
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The perils of South Africa’s illegal mining sector
The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...
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South Africa: 78 Miners Found Starved and Dehydrated to Death in South African Police Operation Against Unlicensed Mining
The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine's Shaft 11 after being trapped underground since last August by the South African police who cut-off food and water ...
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Transforming old mines can tackle illegal mining crisis
David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...
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Regulate mining to top exploitation, bishop urges South African government
A South African bishop called for the government to formalise the activities of small-scale mining operations after scores of ...
Illegal mining ringleader escaped during South Africa disaster with help from officers, police say
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and feared starving in an abandoned South Africa mine
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months.
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Informal mining in South Africa is here to stay. Police brutality won’t end it – here’s what will
This is why the World Gold Council report is correct to speak of the exploitation of small scale and artisanal ... But in South Africa the possibility of self-organised mining appears to have ...
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South Africa criticized for ‘horrific’ mining crackdown after 78 bodies pulled from underground
South Africa loses more than a $1 billion to illegal mining every year and has vowed a crackdown of the trade. There are an estimated 100,000 artisanal miners in the country, known locally as ...