South African-born mining executive Natascha Viljoen is set to make history as the first woman to lead Newmont Corporation, ...

With the gold price having surged above $4 000/oz for the first time ever on October 8, South African gold producers are ...

ROODEPOORT, South Africa (AP) – Julius Mthembu’s mud-spattered face lit up as he held a tin pan and pointed to the glimmering flecks of hope lying among sand and water: gold. The find meant the ...

Hemlo has produced more than 21 million ounces of gold and was once one of Canada's most important mining camps ...

Gold giant Newmont has named its South African-born COO, Natascha Viljoen, as its next president and CEO—a first in the ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Sleeping next to decomposing corpses and surviving on a foul mixture of toothpaste mixed with toilet paper. That's how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed ...

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 ...

That’s how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed to be in the hundreds — have been surviving for weeks, possibly months, over a mile deep underground in a disused mine shaft in the South ...