The recent Stilfontein disaster, claiming 78 lives, has exposed the devastating scale of South Africa's illegal gold mining crisis ...
In Africa tens of billions of dollars of gold are illegally smuggled out each year. Ghana, one of Africa’s top gold producers ...
Kassanda District has more than 32,000 artisanal miners operating at the different mines in the areas of Kasita, Kagaba hills ...
Figure 1. Sampling of the RIM gold vein at the McKenzie Gold Project ...
A group of Oroville leaders met Tuesday for a "vision casting" of what Oroville's next economic engine could be, and what may ...
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government is taking steps to legalize gold mining in the Indus River after significant gold ...
Environmentalist Justin Landry Chekoua says he’s shocked by images of century-old trees uprooted and rivers contaminated in ...
National Minister for Wildlife Conservation and Tourism, Rizik Zachariah Hassan, has closed down illegal gold mining in Boro ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
On Dec. 26, in the waning days of her tenure, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland delivered a 20-year ban on new mining claims ...
Mt Malcolm Mines produces a further 73.9oz of gold from the processing of more high-grade bulk samples from its Golden Crown ...
South African authorities sought to end illegal gold mining in a derelict gold mine in Stilfontein. Their strategy was to cut off the supplies that were being sent down to the miners to keep them ...