Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

I am an anthropologist and I've been studying the social life and history of South African gold mining for nearly three ... industry's formal operations over a century and a half.

I am an anthropologist and I’ve been studying the social life and history of South African gold mining for nearly three ... s formal operations over a century and a half. The horrors in ...

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

The vast Witwatersrand goldfield, where the Stilfontein mine is located, was the focus of a heady gold rush in the 19th century ... bandied about in South Africa, illegal mining is not exclusively ...

Pan African Resources PLC is a mid-tier, under followed South African focused ... Due to the use of rudimentary mining techniques for much of the last century, these tailings heaps still contain ...

A memorial being unveiled in Cape Town this week rights a century-old wrong by ... an ox driver who enlisted with the South African Labour Corps at the diamond mining town of Kimberley on November ...

By 1700, global trade was deeply entrenched in colonial expansion, financial innovation, and the increasing demand for luxury and staple goods.

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

In 2018, Ghana overtook South Africa as the largest producer of gold in Africa, with artisanal and small-scale mining accounting ... beginning of the twentieth century is entirely relevant today.