Authorities in Brazil discovered an illegal mine in the heart of the Amazon rainforest - alleged criminals were mining for ...

A dozen people were trapped after a gold mine in western Kenya partially collapsed, police said Tuesday. Kenya has a small mining sector compared to its neighbours. However despite rapid growth in ...

Spread This NewsThe Conversation In Zimbabwe they say, hanzi bhande rinonzvenga vakadzi vakapinda mumigoghi (The gold belt ...

The Royal Ghana Gold Refinery aims to refine 400kg of gold a day, sourcing the raw material mainly from artisanal and small-scale mines, which officially account for a third of Ghana’s output of ...

Formerly called the “Gold Coast”, the West African nation is bending under pressure from widespread, incessant small-scale mining of the shiny metal. Much of that artisanal activity falls unde ...

Speaking at the ZMF strategic meeting in Harare last week, president Henrietta Rushwaya highlighted the need to reserve small ...

There are thought to be at least 50 000 informal miners working underground in South Africa. According to the auditor general ...

local chairman of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners, told Reuters that nine people had been killed and fourteen severely injured in the incident at the Obuasi gold mining site ...

local chairman of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners, told Reuters that nine people had been killed and fourteen severely injured in the incident at the Obuasi gold mining site ...