Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...

SAPS and SANDF’s Operation Vala Umgodi has seen over 1,000 illegal miners surface at Stilfontein in the North West.

There is still at least 4 000 illegal miners still trapped inside one of the abandoned mine shaft which is the centre of ...

JOHANNESBURG - Thousands of illegal miners remain below ground in an unstable mining shaft in Stilfontein, in the North West, as police wait for them to surface. Last week, more than 1,000 miners ...

Police intensified patrols in the region after 1,000 miners surfaced at the sealed-off Stilfontein mine near Klerksdorp between 18 October and 5 November 2024. Over 140 illegal miners surface from ...

The Fund seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 200% of the inverse (or opposite) of the price performance of the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index. The Fund creates short ...

Water from a polluted river in Ghana was so thick and discoloured that an artist was able to use it as paint to depict the environmental devastation caused by the illegal gold mining that has ...