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 ...

African Rainbow Minerals signed a conditional deal to sell nickel to a smelter owned by Boliden AB, offering a pathway for ...

Thousands of informal miners are working every day beneath South Africa’s coal heartland, swinging pickaxes against rock in pitch-black illegal coal mines. South Africa is among the world's top ...

Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to ...

By Anna Weekes A slew of applications by a little-known mining group to explore for critical minerals in South Africa’s ...

With the investment environment in South Africa having improved quite dramatically over the last few years, the country’s ...

South Africa's government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as part of an ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African soldiers deployed to high-crime areas have dismantled illegal gold mining operations in a community near Johannesburg, forcing some illegal miners to flee and abandon ...

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.