Illegal gold mining activities near Johannesburg were disrupted after South African soldiers moved into crime-prone communities and cleared out sites used by miners operating outside the law. The ...

South African soldiers deployed to high-crime areas have dismantled illegal gold mining operations in a community near Johannesburg, forcing some illegal miners to flee and abandon their equipment.

Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa, since the Archean Eon which is roughly 2.7 billion years old. This isn’t just an ...

South African stocks’ record 12-month winning streak has further to go thanks to booming metals prices and the firmer rand, ...

From Standard Bank’s stronger profits and South Africa’s improving economic momentum to Benin’s return to deflation and a renewed gold boom, several developments are signalling changing macro ...

The biggest gold producer in South Africa declared an interim dividend of R5.30 per share, up from R2.27 previously, making a record payment of R3.38 billion.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People dig for gold outside Springs, South Africa [EPA/Shutterstock] A gold rush has gripped an informal settlement east of the ...

Johannesburg, South Africa, earned the title 'Gold Capital of the World' after a massive gold rush in 1886. Located over the Witwatersrand Basin, it holds Earth's richest gold deposits, producing 40% ...

That’s how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed to be in the hundreds — have been surviving for weeks, possibly months, over a mile deep underground in a disused mine shaft in the South ...

President Trump's recent meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin could mark the beginning of the end of the Ukraine war. Volodymr Zelensky even showed up to the White House last week in a suit.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — The death toll in a months-long standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87, ...