A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced three Chinese nationals to seven years in prison for engaging in activities related to illegal mining.

The recent Stilfontein disaster, claiming 78 lives, has exposed the devastating scale of South Africa's illegal gold mining crisis ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal miners, resulting in close to 80 deaths.

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Authorities now believe that nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally in the mine near the town of Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg, since August last year.

Sahel juntas -- Mali’s Assimi Goita, Niger’s Abdourahamane Tiani and Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore -- are tightening controls ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Societe Generale , France's third-biggest listed bank, is planning a partial comeback to gold trading after quitting the ...

Suspects were found in possession of $400,000 in cash and substantial amount of gold, raising concerns about scale of their ...

The prospect of good forward momentum for a resumption of valuable mining at the re-emerging old Blyvooruitzicht (Blyvoor) ...