Record prices are breathing new life into South Africa’s ailing gold-mining industry.

Coal mines are notorious sources of acid mine drainage, but the orange sludge that threatens water supplies and wildlife also ...

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Bapong, North West, residents are grappling with the devastating consequences of illegal mining, which has disrupted their ...

For more than three decades, one of the country’s largest gold deposits lay dormant, its pits filling with water and its name ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yuanzhi Tang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Scott McWhorter, Georgia Institute ...