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

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 ...

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

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

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 ...

According to UN organisation planetGOLD, between 10 million and 20 million miners for more dan 70 kontris globally dey work for artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Dis figure include up to five ...

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 ...

Gold mining has exploded in Nicaragua over the past few years, bringing in billions of dollars and becoming the country’s top ...

gold and other minerals. Protesters took to the streets of Bukavu last week after Chinese men arrested on suspicion of illegal mining in a separate case were released. "Our minerals are being ...

While artisanal miners are common across ... Lesotho, which is very poor, has no mining activity, so Lesotho gangs steal gold from the workers, Thornton explained. The Global Initiative Against ...