African Mining Week (AMW) 2025 – held under the theme, From Extraction to Beneficiation: Unlocking Africa’s Mineral Wealth – ...
About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...
As the race for the minerals powering the energy transition intensifies and the price of gold rises, our unique ranking ...
"Traditional financing of new ventures in the African mining sector has become increasingly challenging over the past decade," says Wildu du Plessis, a partner at Alchemy. “A variety of non-banking ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
The private sector must continue working with government and strengthen public–private partnerships to not only fortify the ...
In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
Both major and minor players in the sector are leveraging technology to reduce costs, identify and assess new deposits, and ...
The theme of the February 2025 Mining Indaba, Futureproofing Mining Today, underscores the urgency of aligning policy, ...
Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...
The Critical Minerals Africa Group (CMAG) ( the advocacy group seeking to foster deeper relations between Africa and global ...