Up to 30% of South Africa’s gold may be mined illegally, worth billions of rand. High prices and weak oversight feed a shadow ...

West Wits Mining has added 2.2M ounces to the gold resource after securing a key tenement and lowering cut-off grades at its ...

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

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

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

SOUTH Africa’s platinum industry is forecast to triple free cash flow to about R1.7bn this year, after a major uptick in fortunes for the metal and for sister metals palladium and rhodium in 2025.

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Industrial engineering company FAM Minerals & Mining, which is part of engineering and logistics equipment manufacturer Beumer Group, has expanded into South Africa with the launch of FAM Minerals & ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African authorities on Monday suspended rescue operations for an unspecified number of alleged illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine shaft west of Johannesburg due ...

South African equities tumbled in volatile trading on Monday, at one point posting their sharpest decline since March 2020, ...

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.

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 ...