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

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 ...

This week’s podcast features Aris Mining CEO Neil Woodyer, who shares his journey as a founder of three mining companies, his ...

One of the major subjects the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) was at the Investing in African Mining Indaba to talk to governments about is how to move what is an informal gold mining ...

About 40 activists staged a picket outside the Cape Town International Convention Centre to bring attention to the rights of ...

Niger State has uncovered some illegal artisanal Miners who stockpile explosives and possess light arms illegally, even as the government is set to recover them to mitigate the associated security ...

This week’s podcast features Aris Mining CEO Neil Woodyer, who shares his journey as a founder of three mining companies, his collaboration with Frank Giustra, and his latest work ...

Demonstrators marched to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy in Pretoria on Wednesday to call for the decriminalising of artisanal mining activities and to express disapproval of the ...

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.

Several artisanal gold miners were feared dead in Kakamega on Monday after the walls of a mine they were excavating collapsed. A week hardly passes in this country before we hear about such accidents.