South Africa's rand gained on Friday, lifted by stronger precious metal prices and the local central bank's hawkish tone at a ...

The upcoming African Mining Week Summit, scheduled for October 1 - 3 in Cape Town, will highlight profitable opportunities ...

Libya holds the largest foreign exchange and gold reserves in Africa, according to Global Firepower, followed by Algeria and ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

Ghana plans to launch a Gold Board to streamline gold purchases from small-scale miners, increase earnings and reduce ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

A hoard of over 400 coins dated to the first century is a rare mix of Roman and British money. Two metal detectorists in the ...

As the race for the minerals powering the energy transition intensifies and the price of gold rises, our unique ranking ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve them out.

For the past decade, a Santa Fe shop has served as the only certified fair-trade gold jeweler in the country, according to its owner and CEO. Now, Reflective Jewelry, 912 Baca St., also carries the ...

The discovery of gold in the 19th century transformed the city's fortunes, turning it into an economic powerhouse.

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine STILFONTEIN, South Africa -- Rescuers and volunteers have pulled ...