In South Africa last month, 78 gold diggers died in an underground rescue effort. The illegal miners, locally referred to as ...

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 ...

A landslide has engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them. In a statement broadcast on ...

For centuries, artisanal gold miners in the Asgede district, located in the North Western Zone of the Tigray region, have used traditional tools for gold extraction. However, in recent years, this ...

Thirteen artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed in southwest Mali on Wednesday after a tunnel in which they were digging for gold flooded, the national union of gold ...

It says more than 2 million people, or more than 10% of Mali’s population, depend on the mining sector for income. Artisanal gold mining is estimated to produce around 30 tons of gold a year and ...

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

On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich North Kivu province. The fall of Goma marks a shocking chapter in a ...

More than 70 people were killed in January last year after a shaft collapsed at an artisanal gold mining site in the Kangaba Cercle. The overhaul is aimed at reducing costs at the cobalt and ...