A South African horror story: illegal mining stand-off draws to an end
In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
60 bodies pulled from illegal mine in South Africa; many more trapped
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
Stilfontein disaster exposes scale of South Africa's illegal mining challenge
The recent Stilfontein disaster, claiming 78 lives, has exposed the devastating scale of South Africa's illegal gold mining ...
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DRC takes on Apple: can conflict mineral mining be stopped?
we focus on the fight against the exploitation of 'blood minerals' or 'conflict minerals' in Central Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Conflic minerals is the term ...
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Critical minerals, waning Western influence a focus of Chinese FM’s African tour, analysts say
Namibia and minerals Namibia is Wang’s southern African pit-stop this year. The country “is China’s major maritime partner on Africa’s Atlantic seaboard, where the largest concentration of ...