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Mining

SAPS busts over 200 suspects for illegal mining-related offences

20 Jun 2025

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Criminal Law

Over 1,700 suspects nabbed in Vala Umgodi operations

13 Jun 2025

Source: © SABC The Draft Mineral Resources Development Bill, 2025 (Bill) proposes several noteworthy amendments to the current regulatory framework for mineral resources including addressing tailing dumps and associated issues to avoid disasters such as the Jagersfontein disaster

Energy & Mining

11 MPRDA amendments to take note of

Webber Wentzel partners and consultant 22 May 2025

Source: © Impact SRK Consulting considers the risk that illegal artisanal miners pose in the management of tailings dams in many parts of Africa

Mining

Illegal mining: A key risk to tailings dams management and mine closure

2 May 2025

Mental health

Happiness surges in the USA on Inauguration Day, but declines in South Africa, Index reveals

23 Jan 2025

AngloGold Ashanti's main sulphide treatment plant is seen in Obuasi. Source: Reuters/Kwasi Kpodo

Mining

At least seven killed at Ghana gold mine

Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Christian Akorlie 20 Jan 2025

Stilfontein: ‘It was not an illness that killed them. It was starvation’

Mining

Stilfontein: ‘It was not an illness that killed them. It was starvation’

Lindsey Schutters 6 Jan 2025

Community members watch as Senzo Mchunu, South African police minister, inspects outside the mineshaft where it is estimated that hundreds of illegal miners are believed to be hiding underground, after police cut off food and water as part of police operations against illegal miners, in Stilfontein. Source: Reuters/Ihsaan Haffejee

Mining

Ramaphosa calls for Zama Zama human rights to be respected

Bhargav Acharya 19 Nov 2024

Climate change is affecting mining in Africa. Source: Vlad Chetan/Pexels

Health & Safety

22 illegal miners dead in Tanzania's unseasonal rains

Lindsey Schutters 16 Jan 2024

Mining

SAPS tackles illegal mining: Five suspects arrested in Limpopo

29 Dec 2023

Rudie Opperman. Source: Supplied

Technology

Edge computing could solve SA's illegal mining crisis

Rudie Opperman 13 Nov 2023

Cocoa prices are surging: West African countries should seize the moment to negotiate a better deal for farmers

Agro-processing

Cocoa prices are surging: West African countries should seize the moment to negotiate a better deal for farmers

5 Oct 2023

Lack of mining jobs spurs protest in Kagiso

Mining

Lack of mining jobs spurs protest in Kagiso

Chris Gilili 10 Aug 2023

Methane gas explosion killed 31 in disused Free State mine

Health & Safety

Methane gas explosion killed 31 in disused Free State mine

Carien du Plessis and Felix Njini 23 Jun 2023

Zambia restricts number of mining licenses per company to 5

Mining

Zambia restricts number of mining licenses per company to 5

18 Oct 2022

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Mining

Action needed to combat illegal mining

18 Jun 2021

Gold is key to the economic survival of millions of Ghanaians. Knut-Erik Helle/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Mining

Ghana needs to rethink its small scale mining strategy. Here's how

Richard Kwaku Kumah 16 Apr 2021

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Mining

The human cost of mining in the Amazon rainforest

JP Casey 12 Dec 2019

Mining

Lifting the lid on Ghana's illegal small-scale mining problem

Gabriel Botchwey & Gordon Crawford 26 Sep 2019

Michelle Goliath played a major role in establishing the first ethically sourced, fair, women-owned, artisanal diamond process.

Mining

#WomensMonth: Creating a space for women artisanal miners

8 Aug 2019

Kamoto Copper Company. Photo: Wikipedia

Mining

Illegal miners die in DRC mine collapse

28 Jun 2019

Laurence Smith, executive, Graphic Image Technologies

Mining

Beef up visual security to clamp down on illegal mining

Laurence Smith 21 May 2019

Mining

Will the Mining Charter create unrealistic community expectations?

Janine Espin 26 Feb 2019

Minister of MIneral Resources Gwede Mantashe visited Gloria Coal Mine last week, where 22 men are trapped underground, presumed dead. Photo: Ciaran Ryan

Mining

Lawlessness at Gupta mines was behind deadly tragedy

Ciaran Ryan 19 Feb 2019

Study to assess illegal mining in Johannesburg

Mining

Study to assess illegal mining in Johannesburg

27 Nov 2018

Janine Espin, MD of Economic Development Solutions

Mining

What happens to the community when a mine closes?

Janine Espin 13 Nov 2018

Why global environmentalists are silent on Venezuela's mining crisis

Environment & Natural Resources

Why global environmentalists are silent on Venezuela's mining crisis

Isaac Nahon-Serfaty 2 Jul 2018

Case dropped against arrested informal gold miners

Criminal Law

Case dropped against arrested informal gold miners

Kimberly Mutandiro 18 May 2018

Ghana aims to regain top spot in cocoa production

Agriculture

Ghana aims to regain top spot in cocoa production

Kwaku Botwe 12 Oct 2017

Photo: News Ghana

Mining

Guinea landslide kills three illegal miners

21 Jul 2017

Mining

Sibanye's Cooke to resume operations after unprotected strike over illegal mining

30 Jun 2017

Presidential hopeful, Dr Mathews Phosa. Photo:

Mining

Phosa: Mining needs policy certainty

Danette Breitenbach 12 Jun 2017

Healing the scars of mining through sustainable rehabilitation

Mining

Healing the scars of mining through sustainable rehabilitation

9 Dec 2016

Gold Fields' Ghana mines get a lifeline

Mining

Gold Fields' Ghana mines get a lifeline

26 Oct 2016

Agriculture

Farm crime cost Free State farmers millions annually

21 Oct 2016

After Langlaagte: DMR reveals the depth of illegal mining

Mining

After Langlaagte: DMR reveals the depth of illegal mining

21 Sep 2016

Gold recovery and fixing the environment

Mining

Gold recovery and fixing the environment

6 Sep 2016

- Prospectors pan for gold at a gold mine on a cocoa farm near Bouafle, Ivory Coast in March. A gold rush in the Ivory Coast and Ghana threatens cocoa production in the two nations, which account for 60 percent of the world's supply of cocoa. Luc Gnago / Reuters

Agribusiness

Ivory Coast cocoa farmers seek gold in face of drought

5 Sep 2016

Down in the dumps

Mining

Down in the dumps

Nicci Botha 3 Nov 2015

Amazon slowly eaten away by gold rush's illegal mines

Environment & Natural Resources

Amazon slowly eaten away by gold rush's illegal mines

14 Aug 2015

Digital technology will improve mining industry

Science & Engineering

Digital technology will improve mining industry

6 Jul 2015

Illegal mining solutions sought to end R5.6bn in gold thefts

Administration

Illegal mining solutions sought to end R5.6bn in gold thefts

26 Sep 2014

Police nab 115 illegal miners

Law Enforcement

Police nab 115 illegal miners

27 Sep 2013

Ghana's golden future

Energy & Mining

Ghana's golden future

Sébastien Jadot 29 Jul 2013

Energy & Mining

SA must remain dominant platinum supplier

Dennis Cruywagen 25 Feb 2013

Mining

Bargain prices for Zimbabwe diamonds

13 Nov 2012

Go underground with Zama Zama

Biz Lounge

Go underground with Zama Zama

Daniel Dercksen 24 Aug 2012

Forestry

Sapphires and rubies lure Madagascar's poorest

27 Jul 2012

More Vodacom Journalist of the Year regional winners

Media

More Vodacom Journalist of the Year regional winners

12 Oct 2011