Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

A group of illegal miners within a closed mine in the North West province of South Africa have been refused access to basic supplies as part of the government's declared campaign against illicit ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

Hundreds of illegal miners remain underground at an abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein after police allegedly cut off their ...

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

Water from a polluted river in Ghana was so thick and discoloured that an artist was able to use it as paint to depict the environmental devastation caused by the illegal gold mining that has ...

The latest ATO Corporate Tax Transparency Report shows that Australia’s mining industry continues to be the nation’s biggest taxpayer, paying A$43.1-billion in company tax for 2022/23.

Thousands of former coal miners will get pension pay outs after years of campaigning. They will get a total of £1.5bn, a rise of about 32% each and a boost to their pensions kept from them since ...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Eight miners died after being buried under mounds of earth that collapsed on them in an open-pit copper mine in Zambia on Wednesday, police said. One miner was missing and ...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Eight miners died after being buried under mounds of earth that collapsed on them in an open-pit copper mine in Zambia on Wednesday, police said.