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

SwissAid's latest report reveals the alarming extent of corruption among officials in South Africa's gold trade, highlighting ...

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

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, ...

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

Seven workers were injured in the collapse, which occurred in an area controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces.

In Gold Fields' Tarkwa mine in Ghana, a high-tech cat-and-mouse game is playing out with increasing frequency as record gold ...

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

An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has ...

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

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 ...

KHARTOUM: A partial collapse of a traditional gold mine has killed 11 miners and wounded seven others in war-torn Sudan's ...