Four suspects, including three Zimbabweans and one Mozambican, were arrested in Limpopo after police uncovered an illegal ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from a mining shaft this week, and more are believed to remain underground.

Rescue efforts for illegal miners trapped in a Johannesburg mine shaft were suspended due to safety risks. Officials halted ...

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.

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, police pulled out 60 bodies as part of a search-and-rescue ...

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 ...

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

At the heart of South Africa’s ongoing battle against illegal mining, Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has made his ...

Two Zimbabwean nationals have emerged from the abandoned Stilfontein gold mine in South Africa after weeks underground, where they endured harrowing ...