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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Police officers and volunteer rescuers stand by the opening of a reformed gold mineshaft where illegal ...

The body has emerged from the closed gold mine in the northwest town of Stilfontein a day after South Africa's government said it would not help the illegal miners. Around 20 people have surfaced ...

The task team led by North West Community Safety MEC Wessels Morweng has begun the first phase of the retrieval operation to bring suspected illegal miners to the surface in a Stilfontein mine.

Mali’s Russia-allied military government has found a new tactic to wrest more revenue from Western mining companies: detain their employees.

Following the declaration, the attorneys for the university declined to comment. In 2017, the historically Black institution sued Dow Chemical, its subsidiary Union Carbide and former operators of the ...

A London-listed gold mining company has agreed to pay Mali’s military government $160m (£126m) after its British boss was detained by authorities. Resolute Mining has signed a deal to settle ...

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He manages and runs the Miners Lamp Community Cafe & Hub in Eastwoods Park. "Our charity, the Friends of Eastwoods Park, first started as a small community group tidying up Eastwoods Park," he said.

Hundreds – possibly thousands – of miners remain trapped in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa’s northwestern Stilfontein town, fearful to come out of hiding and face arrest by security ...