Nigeria’s illegal miners have continued their quest for gold despite lead contamination affecting thousands.
Illegal miners are reportedly being killed without consequence amid evidence of mine-stripping.
The National Union of Mineworkers has said a major tragedy is looming if government does not curb the thriving illegal mining industy.
Mine owners face an ethical and legal nightmare in trying to deal with illegal shafts.
Following the rescue of 25 illegal miners from an abandoned mine shift, 22 of them are set to appear in court, say the Hawks.
Kilometres away from where 25 illegal miners were rescued, Ekurhuleni municipality says two illegals miners have died in a mine shaft in the area.
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/ 17 February 2014
A rescued illegal miner has been sent back underground to convince his trapped colleagues to come to the surface.
The 11 miners who were rescued from an abandoned gold shaft over the weekend will be appearing in court on charges of illegal mining.
A Gupta-linked colliery has been accused of polluting the Olifants River, a vital source of water for food crop irrigation on farms around Delmas.
The wife of former Limpopo premier Cassel Mathale and four others have appeared in the Maake Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga.
Children as young as eight face toxic gas, mercury poisoning and death in Tanzania’s illegal mines.
Thousands of Chinese nationals have been deported from Ghana in a crackdown on the plunder of the country’s gold by illegal miners.
The Batlhako in North West have accused their chief of a secret deal to rehabilitate a chrome mine.
Nine alleged illegal miners were arrested at the Aurora Grootvlei mine on Tuesday afternoon.
An Aurora director has defended the killing of alleged illegal miners at the mine’s Grootvlei operations, saying it was about protecting the company.
Uncertainty shrouds the cause of death of four men — allegedly illegal miners — whose bodies were found on Thursday in an underground in a mine.
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/ 18 January 2010
Rand Uranium on Monday said measures taken to curb illegal mining had resulted in the arrest of about 650 illegal miners over the last year.
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/ 23 December 2009
More than 200 illegal miners have been nabbed by police in Mpumalanga and more arrests are expected, police said on Wednesday.
The recent tragedy in Welkom has not deterred illegal miners from going back underground. Monako Dibetle finds out what drives them.
The death toll of illegal miners at Harmony Gold’s Eland shaft has risen to 82, police said on Monday.
Families of illegal miners who died underground at Harmony’s disused Eland shaft had not seen their loved ones since December, interviews revealed.
Harmony on Friday said it has suspended 57 workers for gold theft, days after the bodies of 76 illegal miners were recovered from an abandoned shaft.
At the time of writing on Thursday, the bodies of 76 illegal miners had been brought to the surface at Harmony Gold’s Eland shaft in Welkom.
Harmony Gold on Thursday confirmed that the bodies of another 15 illegal miners had been brought to surface at its Eland shaft.
The NUM on Wednesday called for Harmony to take full responsibility for the death of illegal miners at its operations in the Free State.
Reports this week that more than 60 illegal miners died in an accident in an abandoned gold mine has underlined the human cost of SA’s recession.
Illegal miners digging for gold in disused and dangerous shafts started asking for body bags from Harmony Gold a few days ago.
At least 61 miners were killed when fire tore through an abandoned gold shaft in one of South Africa’s deadliest mine accidents.
The death toll from an underground fire that killed illegal miners at a disused gold mine rose to least 61 on Tuesday, Harmony Gold Mining said.
Cosatu on Tuesday said it was ”shocked and dismayed” by the news of the deaths of 36 illegal miners.
Illegal mining of precious rubies from the northern Mozambican province of Niassa was reaching ”alarming proportions”, a report said on Friday.