The state-owned Industrial Development Corp. is backing Frontier Rare Earths’ Zandkopsdrift project in the Northern Cape ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, and oil ...

Hundreds flee Sporong, a township about 50km from Johannesburg, as armed ‘zama zamas’ use terror and extortion to seize the ...

Chinese mining companies confront formidable challenges in South Africa's TAU Mine, where the depth and geology test their ...

The Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, has warned that illegal mining is one of the most pressing challenges facing South Africa’s mining sector – costing the economy ...

Next week’s Mining Indaba Investment Forum will provide an opportunity for direct engagement between government and investors ...

Artisanal miners look on at others filling up a wheelbarrow of coal in a tunnel at the Golfview informal coal mine in Ermelo on September 25, 2025. [AFP] Growing up, Cyprial dreamed of being a lawyer.

The African National Congress (ANC) government has launched a mass police operation to arrest 1,000 migrant gold miners. The miners are working without permits near Barberton, a town in the northeast ...

Record prices are breathing new life into South Africa’s ailing gold-mining industry.

Some of the resurfaced 260 employees stuck underground climb a bus as they leave the South Africa's Sibanye Stillwater's Kloof 7 sub-shaft in Westonaria on May 23, 2025. Damage to a mine shaft had ...

Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were believed to be sick and increasingly weak inside an abandoned mine shaft Thursday.

JOHANNESBURG — A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing last week from a disused mine in South Africa where ...