Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

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 ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

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

For the past decade, a Santa Fe shop has served as the only certified fair-trade gold jeweler in the country, according to its owner and CEO. Now, Reflective Jewelry, 912 Baca St., also carries the ...

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

Foreign exchange and gold reserves are critical assets that many countries use to secure their economies and provide ...

Ghana’s annual trade surplus reached $5 billion in 2024 for the first time ever as the value of the country’s gold exports ...

In South Africa, a months-long standoff between police and illegal gold miners has resulted in over 100 deaths. This surge in ...

A hoard of over 400 coins dated to the first century is a rare mix of Roman and British money. Two metal detectorists in the ...

Scientific inventions, hidden resources, mysterious deposits… In the media, these miraculous ‘finds’ that are meant to secure ...