Libya holds the largest foreign exchange and gold reserves in Africa, according to Global Firepower, followed by Algeria and ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

Ghana plans to launch a Gold Board to streamline gold purchases from small-scale miners, increase earnings and reduce ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

The discovery of gold in the 19th century transformed the city's fortunes, turning it into an economic powerhouse.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over two ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

Aurum Resources’ drilling of two targets at its Boundiali BM tenement has nailed a top hit of 1m at 150.5g/t gold in a 3m intercept going 50.56g/t gold from 124m.

is just one of 6,000 that have been abandoned by South Africa’s gold extraction companies. The vast Witwatersrand goldfield, where the Stilfontein mine is located, was the focus of a heady gold ...

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...