A hoard of over 400 coins dated to the first century is a rare mix of Roman and British money. Two metal detectorists in the ...

Gold miner Discovery Silver said on Monday it would acquire its peer Newmont's stake in Porcupine Operations in Ontario, Canada, for $425 million.

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

A number of factors explain this improving health and safety record, and the government, companies and unions all deserve credit. But no one is keeping tabs on the number of illegal miners who die ...

London-listed Botswana Diamonds has applied for three prospecting licences to secure key anomalies identified by its recent ...

The discovery of gold in the 19th century transformed the city's fortunes, turning it into an economic powerhouse.

It helps its war in Ukraine,” Filatova, a senior research associate at the University of Cape Town, told CNN from South Africa. In CAR ... leader Prigozhin had won concessions to mine gold and ...

Azimut Exploration Inc. (“Azimut” or the“Company”) ( TSXV: AZM ) ( OTCQX: AZMTF ) is pleased to announce preliminary results from its diamond drilling program on the antimony-gold Fortin Zone on its ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror ...

They are often armed and part of criminal syndicates, the government says, and rob South Africa of more than $1 billion a year in gold. Imray reported from Cape Town, South Africa.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved ...

South African authorities have retrieved at least 60 bodies from the Stilfontein gold mine amid a crackdown on illegal mining. Police have been laying siege to the mine since August, cutting off ...