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

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

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

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

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 ...

At an open-cast mine, Abdullahi Ibrahim Danjija carefully chisels away at a hunk of whitish rock before stuffing a sack with ...

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

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 ...

Those artisanal miners who dig should be a member of a cooperative, according to the mining code. No individuals are allowed to exploit minerals without being one, according to Congolese law.

According to a 2019 report funded by the European Union, illegal artisanal mining in South Africa is among the most lucrative and violent in Africa. The report found that lost production linked to ...

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 ...