The U.S. has responded to concerns that China might restrict the export of minerals by trying to diversify its supply chain.

In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about the centenary of diamond prospecting and ...

The recent Stilfontein disaster, claiming 78 lives, has exposed the devastating scale of South Africa's illegal gold mining ...

Many human rights organisations have also noted that conditions for workers in the mines are often very poor, and can involve ... violence in sub-Saharan Africa’s mineral supply chains”.

Justice Malala is a political commentator and former editor of South Africa's This Day. He is the author of “The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

These 78 workers were murdered by the ANC government. Its barbarous actions are a devastating indictment of bourgeois ...

After years of torrid growth, 2024 was a lacklustre year for the global electric vehicle industry and, consequently, for global lithium demand. While the EV market in Asia Pacific performed well ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday pledged Beijing's full support and military aid for the world's poorest ...

Following the fall of dictator Bashar Assad, there is uncertainty over the future of Russia's military bases in Syria. The ...