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Pan African Resources sets sights on production boost despite recent revenue slump

Independent online (SA) 12 Feb 2025
This comes as underground mining in South Africa still represents a significant portion of Pan African’s production base. However, the company had flagged challenges experienced at its Evander Mines and Barberton Mines’ underground operations.
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Mining Indaba: From crime to catalyst – artisanal miners demand reform

Mining 07 Feb 2025
Corruption, lack of development and criminal gangs contribute to the rising trend throughout Africa, Central and South America and Asia ... In South Africa last month, 78 gold diggers died in an underground rescue effort.
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We can do better than another tired Heathrow runway

The Times/The Sunday Times 03 Feb 2025
It is not a vision; it is a concession to stagnation ... railways across India and Africa, the London Underground, the great docks of Hong Kong and the vast shipping hubs that made global trade possible. Ours was a. Comment. Columnists ... DISPATCH ... .
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Stilfontein crisis underlines the need to regulate artisanal mining

Mail Guardian South Africa 28 Jan 2025
Operation Vala Umgodi, “close the hole”, was brought into effect to control illegal underground mining. It is reported that illegal gold mining costs South Africa R70 billion annually in black market sales.
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Trapped miners 'resorted to CANNIBALISM to survive': Survivors of South African horror describe how men ...

The Daily Mail 27 Jan 2025
An emancipated miner is brought to a waiting ambulance after being rescued from underground during the official rescue operation at a disused gold mine shaft in Stilfontein, around 150 kilometers southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.
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The Holocaust in North Africa: Antisemitic laws and forced labor camps

The Jerusalem Post 26 Jan 2025
Antisemitic legislation, suffering in forced labor and detention camps, and even fighting in underground organizations – these experiences were all shared by the Jews of North Africa during the Holocaust and World War II.
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Underground ‘sub-continents’ may rewrite geology textbooks

Popular Science 23 Jan 2025
Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean ... Credit. Utrecht University ... Credit ... ....
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