In a recent study published in the journal Biogeosciences, scientists have confirmed that mercury pollution from artisanal ...

Gold mining in Africa, with its storied past and vibrant present, stands as a beacon of economic potential and a wellspring of market dynamics. This land, etched with veins of gold running deep ...

When Ghanaian President John Mahama returned to power in January, he made fighting galamsey a signature policy. He banned ...

That’s how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed to be in the hundreds — have been surviving for weeks, possibly months, over a mile deep underground in a disused mine shaft in the South ...

The pace of the gold plant build of the TGME gold mine project in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province is stepping up, with ...

Theta Gold Mines continues to progress development of its high-grade TGME gold mine in South Africa with all contractors ...

Billons of dollars in gold is smuggled out of Africa each year and most of it ends up in the United Arab Emirates, where it is refined and sold to customers around the world, according to a report ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Sub-Saharan African central banks that have added gold to their reserves in recent years could face price and liquidity crises if the value of the precious metal slides, BMI, a unit ...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - People around Pama, a West African town on the edge of vast forested conservation areas, had long been forbidden by their government to dig for gold in the reserves, to protect ...

The pits around Pama are no isolated case. Groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State, having lost ground in the Middle East, are expanding in Africa and exploiting gold mines across the region, data ...