Authorities said that at least 78 bodies were recovered from the Stilfontein mine. A trade union federation has accused the ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...

Informal mining in South Africa continues despite police efforts to curb it, as seen in the recent operation in Stilfontein where over 1,000 miners were forced out of abandoned shafts.

A sinkhole developed between two North Arlington houses in 2003, which was blamed on a shaft leading to a copper mine dating to around the Revolutionary War. While many abandoned mines in New ...

But no personnel from the company entered the shaft because they consider it ... South Africa has an estimated 6,000 abandoned mines. The South African government has taken a hard-line approach ...

The group criticised government operations such as Operation Vala Umgodi, which it described as prioritising sealing abandoned mine shafts over protecting the lives of vulnerable miners.