South African authorities on Monday suspended rescue operations for an unspecified number of alleged illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine shaft west of Johannesburg due to safety concerns.

The Trump Administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn much criticism.

Anglo American has long been a leading player within the global mining market, with projects spanning its century of operations within some of the most valuable metal markets in the world including, ...

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

In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in the North West province of South Africa ... s second-largest trade union ...

(Image: www.harmony.co.za) Kusasalethu Gold Mine is a mature, deep-level mine located 90 km west of Johannesburg in South Africa. The operation started in 1978 and has a workforce of approximately ...

They are also crucial to the jewels in South Africa’s ... s precious-metal mines that rank among the world’s biggest. Rand York Castings Ltd., one of the nation’s largest steel fabricators ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds ... in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, police said last week.

CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of miners were reported ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a "horrific" crackdown on ...