The Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea’s violence-prone Enga province will resume operations later this month after a hiatus of several years, a joint venture partner said, amid promises that higher local ownership of the venture will produce an economic windfall.
Due to its Witwatersrand Basin goldfields, Johannesburg, South Africa, which was founded in 1886 after gold was discovered, eventually became the world’s largest producer of the precious metal throughout the 20th century. However, many of the old mines have closed, and their places have been taken by small-scale illegal miners and an array of social issues.
More than 100 people have been killed this year alone as a result of illegal mining in Zimbabwe, according to the country’s authorities, more than twice more than double that of died in 2020. The government has started a safety campaign to target illegal miners
People now go to experience the old Wild West complete with staged gunfights