East African countries have plenty to offer Western miners in the coming years, notably the relative absence of strongarm ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

Since neighboring Rwanda’s Tutsi genocide, eastern DR Congo has faced relentless war. Beyond security concerns, Kigali ...

The rebels, which Rwanda denies supporting, have long been funded at least in part by the illicit mineral trade.

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

Laden with just the possessions they can carry, thousands of displaced people have reached the outskirts of the city of Goma ...

Industrial mining employs 7 million globally. but artisanal and small scale miners comprise at least 45 million people across ...

Sahel juntas -- Mali’s Assimi Goita, Niger’s Abdourahamane Tiani and Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore -- are tightening controls ...

How resources are developed, and where capital is allocated, will determine whether the continent becomes a leader in the ...

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

The latest tragedy has seen at least 78 bodies and over 200 survivors brought to the surface from a mine in Stilfontein.