Africa's development bank is proposing a new 'gold standard' style currency arrangement backed by critical minerals such as ...

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

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

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.

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 ...