A South African Police Services (Saps) vehicle is parked near the mine shaft in Stilfontein on 17 November 2024. Picture: Phill Magakoe / AFP The Department of Mineral Resources is facing backlash ...

There’s more than $100 million of established infrastructure on the site, and the mine produced 25,000 ounces of gold at an all-in sustaining cost of $2,876 per ounce. The deal comes after ...

The collapse of a tailings dam—an earth-filled embankment used to store mining waste—on February 18 released an estimated 50 million liters of waste into the Kafue River, according to ...

The resident said that those who pay for the mining shafts from which gold is usually extracted must hire miners from Monday to Sunday and that if a worker wants to change mines, “he informs the ...

Four European NATO members announced on Tuesday they will withdraw from the Mine Ban Treaty, marking the first time any country has left the agreement outlawing anti-personnel landmines since it ...

LEAD — The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead is America’s Underground Lab – with cutting-edge experiments in biology, geothermal energy, engineering, and physics ...

The defense ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia said in a joint statement that they “unanimously recommend withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention” — the international antipersonnel mine ...

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Two miners were tragically killed in an explosion at a Kwekwe mine on Saturday after one of them accidentally placed a hot object on top of hidden explosives, causing them to detonate. According to a ...

Just because a mine has been exhausted of its ore, that doesn't necessarily mean it has no value. A 2023 study suggests that the shafts of such abandoned mines could serve as energy-storing ...

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