African Mining Week (AMW) 2025 – held under the theme, From Extraction to Beneficiation: Unlocking Africa’s Mineral Wealth – ...
About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.
In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
Foreign mining companies are turning to arbitration as African governments enforce stricter regulations, revoke licenses, and ...
The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.
Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
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