As illegal mining flourishes in South Africa, a growing health disaster is unfolding underground and in surrounding communities, threatening lives and overwhelming public health systems. Beyond ...

The GOOD party supports the call for a Commission of Inquiry into government’s delayed response to the humanitarian crisis in Stilfontein ... in the testimony of the illegal miners that kingpins are ...

The Stilfontein saga is a crisis of governments own making. They have failed to tackle the underlying socio-economic issues that contribute to illegal mining, like unemployment and the lack of ...

Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

Illegal mining has been defined as the extraction of precious metals without adherence to proper procedures which guide legal mining activities. Also known as artisanal mining, this activity often ...

Black Rock manganese ore mine. JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Mining company Assmang on Monday refuted allegations that it engages in the illegal mining of sugilite at the Black Rock mine in ...

Seven illegal miners have been arrested, and about 60 pieces of mining equipment, including excavators, have been confiscated in a major joint military and police operation against illegal mining ...

A total of 69 illegal miners, including undocumented foreign nationals, have recently been arrested in Limpopo as the South ...

An aerial view of dredges at an illegal gold mining area in the Amazon region of Peru. Ernesto Benavides / AFP via Getty Images Gold mining has ramped up across the Amazon rainforest in recent ...

The federal government, the Miners Association of Nigeria, and key security agencies are set to join forces in a renewed effort to combat illegal mining and mineral smuggling as Nigeria ...