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

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

Just at the beginning of the week, dynamites exploded in the Sabon Pegi Mashegu local area of the state, claiming lives and ...

The Niger State government has appealed to businesses and residents to embrace what it called a responsible mining policy.

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

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

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 ...

The practice takes place near homes and rivers. Researchers show large chunks of critically important forest are being ...

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 ...

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 ...