The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were pulled from an abandoned shaft earlier in 2025 when police intensified an operation to clamp down on illegal mining at the old Buffelsfontein gold mine ...

The illegal miners who are still underground in Stilfontein, in the North West, are not trapped. Those who have opted not to exit the mine are simply still there because they fear being arrested.

The organisation, along with religious and traditional leaders, held a cleansing ceremony at shafts 10 and 11 of the Buffelsfontein mine this week, where dozens of miners perished.

In an interview, Ntsokolo said he witnessed fellow miners succumb to hunger and eat human flesh. This corroborates media reports and affidavits from several miners that were submitted to the ...

Miners were drinking brack salty water, he said. During Operation Vala Umgodi, the police were assigned to "smoke out" illegal miners from the hijacked gold mine.

More than 90 people died when police were deployed to "smoke out" illegal miners (Zama zamas). Some of the survivors intend to testify before the SAHRC and some police officers may speak out about ...

Zama zama miner Patrick Ntsokolo saw colleagues eating cockroaches and even dead bodies underground after police from Operation Vala Umgodi blocked deliveries to illegal miners at Stilfontein. He ...

Patrick Ntsokolo says he saw other miners eating human flesh to survive. He hopes to testify at the SA Human Rights Commission hearings into the Stilfontein tragedy Photos: Nomazulu Moyo The South ...

A solo miner using rented hash power temporarily spiked to 259 PH/s and successfully mined Bitcoin block 899,826 on June 5, 2025, earning over $330,000 in a rare all-or-nothing win.

SMALL-SCALE gold miners will now receive a 5% incentive for every 500 grammes of gold delivered to Fidelity Gold Refinery, as part of the government’s strategy to ramp up annual gold deliveries ...

Forced sales and structural pressure Currently, Bitcoin miners face a two-part tax burden: first, regular income tax when coins are mined, and second, capital gains tax if the price increases ...

Russia’s cryptocurrency laws have not convinced most mining businesses to register with authorities, as only 30% of the miners have entered the Federal Tax Service Register since late 2024.