South Africa police standoff with illegal gold miners escalates
The police sealed off access to the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein several weeks ago to deny the miners access to food and other essentials.
A massive seam of pure gold worth at least nine billion pounds has been discovered in one of the poorest regions of eastern Germany. The precious metal was found nearly 4,000ft down in Lausitz region where one-in-five are jobless. Eight hundred
