The rise of illegal mining in the country has raised human rights concerns and questions about who ultimately benefits.

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 ...

The crisis in Pilgrim’s Rest, Mpumalanga Province, and Stilfontein, North West Province, exemplifies how this legacy fuels new forms of exploitation, violence and acts of criminality. The surge in ...

The police have arrested more than 100 suspects and seized two trucks in a sweeping crackdown on illegal mining operations in the North West and Limpopo provinces. The ongoing Operation Vala Umgodi ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Kanpur: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday accused the BJP govt in Uttar Pradesh of indulging in large scale illegal mining in the Chambal ravines in Etawah and claimed that ...