A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

For centuries, artisanal gold miners in the Asgede district, located in the North Western Zone of the Tigray region, have used traditional tools for gold extraction. However, in recent years, this ...

In Zimbabwe it was believed that if a woman went underground the gold seam would vanish, but above ground women held ...

Five people were killed in incidents at two of Harmony Gold’s South African mines, the company reported on Wednesday. Three ...

As per a report by The Telegraph, two survivors revealed that miners resorted to cannibalism, eating the body parts of their ...

Editorial - Former governor of Edo State and current Senate committee chairman on Interior, Adam Oshiomhole, recently stirred the hornet's nest when he alleged, during a budget presentation of the ...

President John Mahama has ordered an investigation into violence between illegal miners and soldiers of the Ghanaian army ...

The Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...

Illegal gold mining has endured in South Africa owing to a perfect storm of factors: an abundance of disused shafts, weak government enforcement of mine closure regulations, and the twin scourges ...

Ghana, once known as the "Gold Coast," has a history connection with gold. For centuries, this precious metal has shaped the nation’s destiny, fueling trade, wealth, and development. But has gold been ...

Zamfara State is one of Nigeria’s minerally-rich states with huge deposits of gold, copper and lithium. In the same vein, the state has over the years become one of the most insecure in the country, ...