Vedanta Resources has appointed Chris Griffith, a South African mining veteran, to lead its base metals unit, which includes the recently r...

Transnet and Sasol warned in 2018 that the zama zamas were dangerously close to highly flammable gas and fuel lines beneath Johannesburg, p...

More than 50 people have died in the country’s mines in 2018, roughly the same number as this time last year.

While the diamonds of this study were found in 3 billion-year-old sedimentary rocks, diamond formation occurred much deeper.

Gold Fields said South Deep this year was expected to produce 6,500 kg of gold, down 8.5 per cent from a pervious forecast of 7,100 kg.

You could stack 10 Empire State Buildings on top of each other in the distance from the bottom of the mine to the surface.

Indian-origin Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan was today appointed as the new chief executive of South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti.

The 10 biggest gold companies led by Barrick Gold spent more than $100 billion in the past 20 years buying new mines and projects around th...

Researchers have discovered a new worm in three South African gold mines, which they claim is the deepest-living land animal ever found on ...

Paulson & Co, the $36-bn hedge fund founded by John Paulson, took a stake in HP and increased its holding of Transocean, adding cos undergo...

Billionaire George Soros sold most of his physical gold holdings in the first quarter as bullion prices rallied toward a record while hedge...

Once the most infamous symbol of the era of segregation under Apartheid era, today the black township of Soweto is the soul of a reborn Sou...

Gold production in South Africa fell 16.8 percent in the first quarter of the year following widespread power cuts, figures from the chambe...

The World Gold Council and Dubai Multi Commodities Centre have launched an exchange traded fund backed by physical bullion.

The Tata group may soon make a foray into the lucrative mining business in South Africa.

US financier Edward Pastorini may lead a bid for Gold Fields, the world’s fourth-largest gold producer, to tap the rising price of bullion....

Hopes were fading on Wednesday for five miners in South Africa who were trapped thousands of metres below the surface at one of the world's...