The Biden administration is blocking new coal mining on public lands at a major hub for the fossil fuel. Last week and this ...

South African police this week arrested a group of 14 people who resurfaced from a gold mine that’s at the centre of a tense, ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

South African authorities are embroiled in a standoff with an unconfirmed number of illegal miners who remain underground at ...

The body has emerged from the closed gold mine in the northwest town of Stilfontein ... wait nearby to arrest all those appearing from underground. It comes a day after a cabinet minister said ...

STILFONTEIN - Two illegal miners have been rushed to hospital after being brought up to the surface at an abandoned mine in Stilfontein, North West. The two men are the latest to resurface from ...

Volunteers intervened in South Africa, after 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 ...

The South African government has refused to help an estimated 4,000 miners illegally occupying an underground mine in Stilfontein, attempting to “smoke them out” and crack down on illegal mining.

STILFONTEIN - An operation to shut down an illegal mining operation at the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein was set to continue on Saturday morning. This follows a visit by Police Minister Senzo ...

of illegal miners are thought to be underground. Police and ambulances have been at the site, in Stilfontein, about 140 kilometres (90 miles) southwest of Johannesburg, for several days.

Dozens of volunteers have entered an abandoned gold mine in South Africa to help what could be thousands of illegal miners who have been underground for a month. Because the miners entered the ...

Old and new miners sold BTC at above $87,000, causing the highest inflow to exchanges since March 2020. Miners are taking profits to offset higher mining costs. Whales are also selling BTC for profit, ...