Companies export iron ore from the Saldanha port on South Africa’s west coast, while they ship most coal from Richards Bay on the eastern seaboard. Alongside gold, platinum group metals and cars ...
Project Description The Prieska copper mine is located on a significant volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit. The fully permitted mine, which last operated in 1991, has a Joint Ore Reserves Committee ...
StatsSA's report highlights the mixed performance across the mining sector, with production challenges in key areas offset by ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about a centenary of diamond prospecting and ...
South Africa's mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous year, official statistics showed on Thursday.
KHUMA, South Africa ... for gold mining, had been in decline since the early 2000s. As deposits dried up in Stilfontein, international companies departed and unemployment in the area surged ...
The National Prosecuting Authority’s Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) – working in collaboration with the South African Financial ...
STILFONTEIN, South ... South Africa of more than $1 billion a year in gold. Authorities said that more than 1,500 people have been arrested for mining illegally in the Stilfontein area over ...
South Africa has an estimated 6,000 abandoned mines, and authorities said more than 1,500 people had been arrested for illegal mining in the Stilfontein area since last August. The South African ...