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 ...

A Ghanaian small-scale miners' association on Sunday said soldiers killed nine unarmed people at an AngloGold Ashanti mine on Saturday night, while the army said seven illegal miners had been killed ...

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

Government has inaugurated the Technical Committee of the Ghana Gold Board, a step toward stabilising the nation’s currency ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...