The operation is an extension of Operation Vala Umgodi that began with the Stilfontein massacre in January, where 90 miners ...

Gayton McKenzie's son Calvin Le John is selling off shares to the family's diamond mines, which he used to purchase Siwelele ...

The mine is 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) deep with multiple shafts, many levels and a maze of tunnels. The group representing the miners said there are numerous groups in various parts of the mine.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved ...

World News Dozens of survivors, dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain underground By Associated Press Published Jan. 14, 2025, 7:59 p.m. ET ...

The weight would make it the largest diamond found in 119 years and the second-largest ever dug out of a mine after the Cullinan Diamond that was discovered in South Africa in 1905. The famous ...

While Valterra and its peers in South Africa, which is by far the world’s largest platinum producer, have been tackling a ...

Rescuers and South African Police Service (SAPS) officers carry remains in blue body bags during a rescue operation to retrieve illegal miners from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein on ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water supplies for several months in what critics called a “horrific” act ...

Christo Wiese, South Africa’s-billionaire retail king, is going back to the future. The 82-year-old serial investor, who steered the expansion of both Africa’s biggest clothing retailer and ...

Loyd and Jayne Ervin of Jayson Jewelers Ltd. recently visited a diamond mine in South Africa. The Ervins participated in the underground tour of the Bultfontein Diamond Mine in Kimberly, as guest ...