The Africa Report8h
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 ...
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: ...
Miningreview2d
Trend watch: Where will Africa’s mining and natural resources sector go in 2025?
Africa’s mining sector faces ongoing challenges in 2024, including political uncertainty, infrastructure issues, and safety ...
New York Post15d
Dozens of survivors, dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain underground
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and ...
Wilson Center1d
A New African Mining Sector? Trends in Mining, Infrastructure, and Investment for African Development
African infrastructure and investment. Trade is increasingly seen as the anchor to alleviating poverty through cross-border economic exchange, especially in the mining sector, during this era of the ...
The Associated Press on MSN8d
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 ...
Hosted on MSN14d
South African authorities haul dozens of bodies from mine siege
The men in Stilfontein managed to send letters and pictures ... mines, however, will be tough. And the siege threatens to upend politics in Johannesburg, where a delicate alliance between the ...