is just one of 6,000 that have been abandoned by South Africa’s gold extraction companies. The vast Witwatersrand goldfield, where the Stilfontein mine is located, was the focus of a heady gold ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve them out.