Liberia secures Global Environment Facility (GEF) approval for landmark mercury-reduction project in the gold mining sector, ...
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved a transformative project developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia and supported by the African Development Bank Group to ...
The Minerals Development Fund (MDF) has debunked the notion that gold mining requires the use of dangerous chemicals like ...
"Many women end up losing their children," says Alessandra Korap, a community leader of the Munduruku people from the Brazilian Amazon. "Either they can't get pregnant, or they lose their [foetus] ...
Gold is on a tear, silver is at record highs, so is copper and supply-demand fundamentals are starting to favour critical ...
The Minerals Development Fund (MDF) has launched an environmentally sustainable mining initiative aimed at reducing water and ...
The surge in gold prices is driving a rapid expansion in informal and unregulated gold mining that is often illegal and ...
The unregulated extraction causes mercury pollution and provides organized crime with a new source of revenue.
Despite modern scientists identifying mercury as a hazardous environmental pollutant and one of the world 39;s most dangerous elemental toxins, mercury was once accepted as a miraculous substance ...
Across mainland South-East Asia, more than 2,400 mines – many of them illegal and unregulated – could be releasing deadly ...
When 29-year-old Norbert Amoya went to fetch water from a river in northern Zambia earlier this year, he found large numbers ...
Theta Gold Mines is all but ready to commit to development of its Gold Mining Estates (TGME) project in South Africa after ...