The reason why poor rural folk keep flocking into a sector with such exploitative working conditions is clear: the lack of ...

In Zimbabwe it was believed that if a woman went underground the gold seam would vanish, but above ground women held ...

At an open-cast mine, Abdullahi Ibrahim Danjija carefully chisels away at a hunk of whitish rock before stuffing a sack with ...

Mantashe focused on South Africa's role within the mining sector, noting that the country holds 37% of the world’s manganese ...

They denounced the arrests of artisanal miners operating in abandoned mines, saying it did nothing to alleviate South ...

Thirteen artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed in southwest Mali on Wednesday after a tunnel in ...

The office of the governor said the landslide at the artisanal gold mine in southern Mali happened on Wednesday. It said several of the miners were ... countries in Africa. In January last year ...

Horrendous images of the emaciated figures of the living and the dead as they were brought to the surface at Stilfontein show ...

Rwandan-backed armed group M23 seized one of the world’s most productive coltan concessions, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, a UN report estimates that 120 tonnes of the precious ...

Artisanal mining is a common activity across much of West Africa and has become more lucrative in recent years due to growing demand for metals and rising prices. Deadly accidents are frequent as ...

Zamfara State is one of Nigeria’s minerally-rich states with huge deposits of gold, copper and lithium. In the same vein, the state has over the years become one of the most insecure in the country, ...