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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Elevator plummets 650 feet in South African platinum mine, killing 11 and injuring 75 The entrance of the Impala Platinum mine shaft No. 11 near Rustenburg, South Africa.

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 ...

The mine shaft is approximately 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) deep. South Africa is the world’s largest producer of platinum.