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, ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

In 2022, humans produced an estimated 62 million tonnes of electronic waste – enough to fill more than 1.5 million garbage ...