South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

The Welsh industrial landscape was appallingly under-represented in silent film days when almost all features set in Wales ...

Three ex-miners from the same valley in South Wales, but with very different experiences of the strike.

Rescue workers look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein, South ... awaiting black BMWs and being driven off. Bringing Up the Bodies The rescued illegal miners ...

In 1984 the miners' strike threw coal-mining areas across ... The benefit shows that happened across South Wales, not just in Newport, saw hundreds of artists and bands support the cause, putting ...

Australian police suspect explosives stashed on Sydney’s outskirts were evidence of a deadly escalation in a campaign of ...

The mines have been taken over by gangs, often former employees, that sell minerals they find on the black market. This includes the mine in Stilfontein, some 145km (90 miles) south-west of the ...

In mining, if orange was the new black, then gold is the new orange ... 180,000tpa Burbanks Mill 9km south of Coolgardie. "There's a bit of a disconnect where speculative companies have not ...