In South Africa last month, 78 gold diggers died in an underground rescue effort. The illegal miners, locally referred to as ...

Just at the beginning of the week, dynamites exploded in the Sabon Pegi Mashegu local area of the state, claiming lives and ...

A landslide has engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them. In a statement broadcast on ...

The government is mapping out abandoned mining sites across the country in an effort to address the long-term impacts of mining on the environment.This proactive step is aimed at developing tailored ...

The reason why poor rural folk keep flocking into a sector with such exploitative working conditions is clear: the lack of ...

BAMAKO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Thirteen artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed in southwest Mali on Wednesday after a tunnel in which they were digging for gold flooded ...

They denounced the arrests of artisanal miners operating in abandoned mines, saying it did nothing to alleviate South ...

Their calls add to growing pressure on government to make artisanal and small-scale mining a safe and transparent sector that ...

Barasa said the national government should come in and provide safety equipment to support the artisanal activities from the mining process to the production stage. "Our miners should also be ...

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

The office of the governor said the landslide at the artisanal gold mine in southern Mali happened on Wednesday. It said several of the miners were killed but did not provide a number. This is not ...