In mid-January 2025 over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South ... in the gold sector worldwide do so as informal or artisanal ...
Until 2007, South Africa was the world's leading producer of gold ... One of the key reasons the perilous informal mining sector survives is the connivance of established gold dealers. GI-TOC said a ...