In Zimbabwe it was believed that if a woman went underground the gold seam would vanish, but above ground women held ...

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

Peru, the world's No. 2 copper exporter, could see farming overtake mining as the biggest economic driver by 2050, the country's agriculture minister told Reuters, eyeing meat exports to China, tax ...

Chris Musiime, a Mandela Washington Fellow in 2014, is an advocate for sustainable extractives management in Uganda.

The Ghana National Association of Small-Scale Miners (GNASSM) has assured the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, ...

Government has inaugurated the Technical Committee of the Ghana Gold Board, a step toward stabilising the nation’s currency ...

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a ...

The National Concerned Association of Small-Scale Miners (NCASSM) has called for a probe into the utilisation of over $200 million allocated between 2017 and 2024, to combat illegal mining (galamsey) ...

Small towns embedded in agricultural areas have grown significantly over the last decades, driven particularly by the effects ...

Speaking at the ZMF strategic meeting in Harare last week, president Henrietta Rushwaya highlighted the need to reserve small ...

The Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission says the outcome of the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell project, if it ...

Fidelity Gold Refiners has hailed small-scale gold miners for contributing over 65 percent of the 36,48 tonnes of gold Zimbabwe produced in 2024 as the formalisation of artisanal mining continues to ...