From Rock to Ledger: How Blockchain Could Reshape Mining in South Africa
This year’s Mining Indaba got me thinking—not just about the scale of South Africa’s mineral wealth but about the systems ...
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Dozens of bodies retrieved from South Africa mine after months-long police standoff
(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 ...
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South Africa mine rescue ends, anger rises over 78 deaths in police siege
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 ...
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At least 100 people mining illegally died while trapped in a South African mine for months
(Photo: Denis Farrell, Associated Press) Mnguni said that the more than 500 miners still underground were in different places in the mine, which is one of the deepest in South Africa at 1.5 miles ...