Hundreds of miners trapped in South African gold mine are 'eating legs, arms, and ribs' to survive. Here's what happened
Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
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Africa’s top mining destinations
As the race for the minerals powering the energy transition intensifies and the price of gold rises, our unique ranking ...
The rescue of hundreds of miners in a deep South African gold mine began with a camera and a note
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
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Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police’s ‘smoke them out’ tactics
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
A South African horror story: Illegal mining standoff draws to an end
In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
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Zimbabwe dithers on confronting South Africa over the ‘massacre’ of its nationals at Stilfontein Mine
Spread This NewsBy Darlington Gatsi ZIMBABWEAN authorities in South Africa are hesitant to confront the government about its ...
South Africa mine rescue ends, anger rises over 78 deaths in police siege
South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...
Mining Weekly1d
Surge in streaming and alternative funding for African miners
"Traditional financing of new ventures in the African mining sector has become increasingly challenging over the past decade," says Wildu du Plessis, a partner at Alchemy. “A variety of non-banking ...
Informal mining in South Africa is here to stay. Police brutality won’t end it – here’s what will
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
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A silver lining for South Africa’s ferroalloys sector
South Africa is on the cusp of reviving its ferroalloys industry, but its progress depends on several reforms, including affordable electricity and fixing the country's logistics bottlenecks. Speaking ...
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Death of Miners in South Africa a Government Failure
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...