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 ...

Its Open Day and Critical Minerals Forum held at Araxá in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state on December 1 was attended by more than 200 guests representing state and local governments, community and ...

Norway on Wednesday postponed the first licences to permit deep-sea mining in its Arctic waters for four years, a delay environmentalists hope signals the "nail in the coffin" of the plans. The ...

Special Report: In WA a mining licence is a ticket to ride, and Terrain Minerals has secured that at its Smokebush gold project, where a maiden resource is expected next year. At a time when project ...

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

ABSTRACT: The Puyango River Basin covers approximately an area of 4400 km2, it is located in Southern of Ecuador, with Calera and Amarillo rivers as tributaries. In this region, one of the main ...

The city of Laredo Utilities Department issued a statement Sunday announcing a possible water service interruption and advising motorists and pedestrians to exercise caution Monday due to hydrant ...

"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] ...