A landslide has engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them. In a statement broadcast on ...

Regularised artisanal mining could also boost the security industry through protection services guarding these mines. It ...

Just at the beginning of the week, dynamites exploded in the Sabon Pegi Mashegu local area of the state, claiming lives and ...

Units of the Algerian army raided a group of gold prospectors from the Tindouf refugee camps earlier this week, seizing their vehicle and forcing them to flee on foot into Mauritania, according to ...

The 2023 national survey identified 970 mineral occurrences across Kenya, including critical minerals such as rare earth ...

The Niger State government has appealed to businesses and residents to embrace what it called a responsible mining policy.

Industrial mining employs 7 million globally. but artisanal and small scale miners comprise at least 45 million people across ...

Fidelity Gold Refiners has hailed small-scale gold miners for contributing over 65 percent of the 36,48 tonnes of gold Zimbabwe produced in 2024 as the formalisation of artisanal mining continues to ...

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

For the past decade, a Santa Fe shop has served as the only certified fair-trade gold jeweler in the country, according to its owner and CEO. Now, Reflective Jewelry, 912 Baca St., also carries the ...

In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...