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

Operation Vala Umgodi has civic groups coming out in support of regulating artisanal mining, which not only benefits those willing to extract rock or soil containing fragments of gold but also ...

The artisanal and small-scale mining sector holds immense promise for Kenya’s economic transformation. With the potential to contribute up to 10 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product ...

According to UN organisation planetGOLD, between 10 million and 20 million miners for more dan 70 kontris globally dey work for artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Dis figure include up to five ...

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

(Photo by Christian Velcich / AFP) If the government is serious about addressing illegal mining and its accompanying organised crime mafia, it must legalise artisanal mining and transform ...

The South African government has long struggled to deal with illegal mining by individuals and small groups (referred to as “artisanal mining”), and the crisis came to a head last November ...

At least seven artisanal miners have been killed in clashes with armed forces at AngloGold Ashanti's Obuasi gold mining site in Ghana. "A large group of armed, illegal miners attempted to forcibly ...

According to the Professional Group of Miners of the Ivory Coast, the country's mining industry has created around 20,000 formal jobs over the past decade. Additionally, artisanal and small-scale ...

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Efforts to combat illegal mining have yet to address its root causes effectively. According to artisanal mining expert Kgothatso Nhlengwetwa, illegal mining operates as a syndicate-based industry ...