When 29-year-old Norbert Amoya went to fetch water from a river in northern Zambia earlier this year, he found large numbers ...

Across the gold belts stretching from Niger through Kaduna to Zamfara, artisanal mining—once a humble livelihood—has morphed ...

Source: Unregulated mining sparks ‘environmental armageddon’ fears in Zimbabwe – CITEZW File picture: Illegal mining ...

Mr Gerard Boakye, Deputy Director of Corporate Affairs at Golden Star Resources, has said sustainable small-scale mining in Ghana depends on full formalisation and licensing of operators. He explained ...

The planetGOLD Ghana Project has held a comprehensive educational session for 25 miners at Okutey Mines, one of the project’s pilot sites, to ...

As China cut domestic extraction, uncontrolled mining in areas of Myanmar ruled by powerful ethnic armies has boomed.

"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] ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A global mercury conference in Geneva faced sharp criticism Friday from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to take stronger steps against mercury use in ...