The upcoming African Mining Week Summit, scheduled for October 1 - 3 in Cape Town, will highlight profitable opportunities ...

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

African Mining Week (AMW) 2025 – held under the theme, From Extraction to Beneficiation: Unlocking Africa’s Mineral Wealth – ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

As the race for the minerals powering the energy transition intensifies and the price of gold rises, our unique ranking ...

"Traditional financing of new ventures in the African mining sector has become increasingly challenging over the past decade," says Wildu du Plessis, a partner at Alchemy. “A variety of non-banking ...

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

Africa's biggest copper producers, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, are working on deals to gain exposure to ...

Across the West African Economic and Monetary Union, governments are tightening mining regulations to boost revenue for development. But as Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso push reforms, investor ...

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

Foreign mining companies are turning to arbitration as African governments enforce stricter regulations, revoke licenses, and ...

Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...