Down a shaft that plunged more than a mile below the earth in South Africa’s old mining heartland, a man’s life hung in the ...

Six of the zama zamas resurfaced from shaft 10 at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, while another was pulled out at shaft 11.

There's still gold in them thar hills. As the price of the precious metal climbs to record highs, prospectors are buying up claims in the Mojave Desert to seek their fortune. But it's the real estate ...

Mine shafts in the Randsburg Mining District in Johannesburg, Calif., where gold was discovered in 1895. It's a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the ...

Determined to flush out hundreds of illegal miners trespassing in the disused gold mine, officers began stopping food and water going into the shafts and waited to starve the prospectors out.

The rise of illegal mining in South Africa’s critical minerals sector calls for urgent intervention to protect economic interests and human rights.

In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of ...

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