South Africa's gold mines are now so deep they might as well be on another planet. Gaetan Borgonie CBS News Bernard Swanepoel: I'm not sure that we really want to send human beings much deeper.

South Africa experienced a gold rush in the 1880s, with prospectors coming from all over to try their luck in Africa's very own wild west.

South Africa's commodity-backed currency and stocks weakened on Wednesday, with investor focus on precious metal prices that ...

South Africa experienced a gold rush in the 1880s, with prospectors coming from all over to try their luck in Africa's very own wild west.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over ...

South African authorities have argued that the miners were always able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, one of the deepest in the mineral-rich country.

SPRINGS, South Africa — Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, the union at the center of the ...

South Africa's Gold Fields will acquire Gold Road Resources in a sweetened deal valuing the Australian miner's equity at A$3.7 billion ($2.4 billion), as sky-high bullion prices drive a wave of ...

South Africa's gold mines are now so deep they might as well be on another planet. Gaetan Borgonie CBS News Bernard Swanepoel: I'm not sure that we really want to send human beings much deeper.