Gold mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Okapi Wildlife Reserve is threatening part of the world's second-largest ...

Both major and minor players in the sector are leveraging technology to reduce costs, identify and assess new deposits, and ...

As the race for the minerals powering the energy transition intensifies and the price of gold rises, our unique ranking ...

Multinational corporations are the modern-day Leopold II, albeit with better PR teams. Despite numerous pledges for ethical sourcing, many tech giants continue to profit from Congo's misery. A 2022 ...

Small towns embedded in agricultural areas have grown significantly over the last decades, driven particularly by the effects ...

African infrastructure and investment. Trade is increasingly seen as the anchor to alleviating poverty through cross-border economic exchange, especially in the mining sector, during this era of the ...

The solution to the problem of informal economies is not policing. Nor is it regulation. The solution must begin with massive regional economic repair.

"Traditional financing of new ventures in the African mining sector has become increasingly challenging over the past decade," says Wildu du Plessis, a partner at Alchemy. “A variety of non-banking ...

Industrial mining employs 7 million globally. but artisanal and small scale miners comprise at least 45 million people across ...

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

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