A team of scientists from Flinders University have developed a method to extract gold from ore and e-waste using ...

At Kitanda Village in Kiruuma Sub-county, Mubende District, hundreds of artisan miners engage in the gold mining business. They built makeshift homesteads, using mud, tarpaulin, and reeds, ...

The blockade is part of an action demanding that the government extend the deadline for regularising informal mining ...

A state-owned mining company said it had warned against working the "artisanal" shaft in Sudan's northeast because of the ...

For the governments of West Africa's Sahel region, the stakes are even higher. Gold is a lifeline for the military juntas of ...

Frustrated by regulatory restrictions and red tape, thousands of small-scale gold and copper miners in Peru are staging ...

A new gold extraction method turns old electronics into treasure using pool disinfectant and sunlight — no poisons required.

The partial collapse of a traditional gold mine in Sudan’s northeast has killed 11 miners and wounded seven others, according ...

Introduction Illegal mining, especially artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM), has proliferated across many developing ...

Since the outbreak of conflict between Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, Sudan’s gold industry has substantially sustained both sides’ operations ...

A partial collapse of a traditional gold mine has killed 11 miners and wounded seven others in war-torn Sudan’s northeast, the state mining company said on Sunday. Since war erupted between Sudan’s ...

Anywhere between 5% and 30% of gold in South Africa – once the world’s top producer – is mined illegally, laundered, and ...