The adoption of the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) is significantly shaping mine closure strategies ...

Rosalind Morris digs deep via ethnography, history, personal testimony, and political thought to tell the story about the ...

Elite competition for dominance over illegal mining locations leads to funding of armed bandits, and the use of violence ...

Weeks after the administration of US President Donald Trump gutted the country’s aid programs, canceling billions of dollars ...

South Africa. He has previously contributed photos and stories to NPR on the Mozambique cyclone of 2019, Indonesian death ...

Ownership of Stilfontein mine and illegal mining challenges Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe revealed that South Africa has 6 100 derelict and ownerless mines, which serve as hotspots for ...

For many years, the running joke—popularized by the HBO show Silicon Valley—was that in the Bay Area, Christianity was “borderline illegal.” Of course there have always been Christians in ...

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has told Parliament illegal mining will not be resolved unless South Africa's porous borders are effectively managed.

Lebanon’s state news agency said a U.N. peacekeeper was wounded when a landmine exploded in the country's south. National News Agency did not give further details about the blast between the villages ...

Since 2024, the army has carried out more frequent operations, destroying dozens of mines and seizing explosives, electric generators, and other tools used in illegal mining. On Jan. 9 ...

Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe revealed that South Africa has 6 100 derelict and ownerless mines, which serve as hotspots for illegal mining and related crimes. In the North West ...

Calling illegal immigration ... that the Stilfontein mine tragedy, in which 93 illegal miners died and nearly 2,000 were arrested, was a consequence of South Africa's insecure borders.