Hundreds of illegal miners are trapped underground in a derelict Stilfontein mine in South Africa. While the human cost has sparked outrage, questions remain over who is responsible for the escalating ...

Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 44, No. 152, Special Issue: Extraction and beyond: people’s economic responses to restructuring in southern and central Africa (June 2017), pp. 272-291 (20 ...

Four nights a week, Given Zuli packs some food, meets his colleagues at the entrance of an abandoned coal mine in South ...

Rescue workers look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Thursday. They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal.

When Anglo American fulfils its proposed move to Vancouver, can the country retain and redeploy the knowledge base that Anglo ...

This year’s Mining Indaba got me thinking—not just about the scale of South Africa’s mineral wealth but about the systems that underpin the industry. Mining is the backbone of the economy, ...

Tracy-Lynn Field receives funding from the Claude Leon Foundation and is a non-executive director of the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa. The operation is an attempt to “stamp the ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, and oil and gas production). It is also emitted by agriculture (especially ...

Pan African Resources PLC is a mid-tier, under followed South African focused gold producer. The company is the market leader in extracting low-cost gold from tailings heaps. Management has an ...

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