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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Excited miners celebrated finding a rich vein of gold at a mining pit in Myanmar. Footage shows the workers shovelling dirt ...

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 ...

including Gold Fields and De Beers Group. The government has refused calls to formalise artisanal mining in order to make the trade safer and regulated. The result is a growing supply of what is ...

gold and other minerals. Protesters took to the streets of Bukavu last week after Chinese men arrested on suspicion of illegal mining in a separate case were released. "Our minerals are being ...

Recycled gold is seemingly a win for an industry in need of reform. But whether it stands up to scrutiny is another question.