South Africa's proposed chrome ore export tax will hurt miners' profitability and lead to job losses across the sector, the ...

According to SAFTU, South Africa harbors up to 100,000 artisanal miners, known locally as “zama zamas” with most of the minerals derived from artisanal mining “sold to the black market, and ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long standoff with police in the darkness of a disused gold mine.

SPRINGS, South Africa — Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, the union at the center of the ...

The Minerals Council of South Africa has stated that the proposed chrome ore export tax will negatively impact the ...

South African gold output has steadily declined for three decades. Record prices and political stability are bringing the ...

South Africa’s platinum group metals (PGMs) sector is facing one of its toughest periods in recent history. According to ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over ...

South Africa has an estimated 6,000 abandoned mines. The South African government has taken a hard-line approach to the groups, who are known as zama zamas — which means “hustlers” in the ...