South African gold pirates risk all pillaging mines
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South Africa, the world's top gold producer, has launched a crackdown against &quot;pirates&quot; who live for months in the bowels of abandoned pits, plundering booty worth millions of dollars.
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A takeover bid which would create the world's biggest gold company, with assets of $10bn, is reportedly being considered in South Africa.
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South Africa&#39;s Harmony Gold looking to create the world&#39;s biggest gold producer after it pounced on bigger domestic rival Gold Fields with an all-share takeover bid worth about $A11.
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(120 sec.) Africa's largest oil producer is facing a resurgence of violence and kidnappings driving oil prices up.
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THE death of Indiaâs forest-dwelling Bandit King has sparked a sudden gold rush in the dense forests of southern India as hundreds of villagers descended on the former no-go zone to search for the outlawâs hidden riches.
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Gold and platinum prices soared to record highs Friday after mine stoppages in South Africa, a leading producer of the precious metals, fed buying on supply concerns.
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Philip Durell takes a look at three gold mines for value investors.
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A highly drug resistant strain of   tuberculosis has spread further in South Africa, hitting six   miners in the gold industry, the health department said on   Tuesday.
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born out of a former gulag north of the Arctic Circle - come to be a key player in South Africa&#39;s gold industry? There used to be a lot of talk about foreign companies running off with Russian resources.
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Bandits from all factions are increasingly targeting relief convoys and aid workers in Sudan's conflict.
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The comment from the head of the mining conglomerate Anglo American last week seemed harmless enough. Tony Trahar said the political risk of investing in South Africa &quot;is starting to diminish -- although I am not saying it has gone.&quot;
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Gold Fields executives will this week publish their most comprehensive attack to date on the hostile bid for their company, which was launched last month by rival Harmony.
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South Africa's largest mining company, Anglo American, tries to defuse an investment row with President Mbeki.
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Russiaâs largest metals producer Norilsk Nickel and two South African gold mining companies Gold Fields and Harmony Gold Mining Co.
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A new "gold rush" is luring anglers to South African rivers to do battle with the mighty yellowfish.
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South Africa's high levels of crime are continuing to deter foreign investors, a business group warns.
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Triads are fuelling a trade that has seen a surge in violence in the aready crime-riddled Cape, writes Sam Kiley.