This year’s Mining Indaba got me thinking—not just about the scale of South Africa’s mineral wealth but about the systems ...

(Themba Hadebe/The Associated Press) Illegal mining is a common practice in South Africa, where more than ... some miners were trapped deep inside different parts of the mine, which is 2.5 ...

Illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year, according to the mining minister. Typically, undocumented miners move into mines abandoned by commercial miners and seek to extract ...