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"I dig every day to help my family," says 12-year-old gold miner Eric Tanguda, as he scrambles through the ankle-deep mud in a yawning op ...

Across Congo, Freelance Miners Dig In Against Modern Industry. Firms Forced to Deal With Scrappy Independents. April 24, 2008. By Stephanie McCrummen.

Congo also produces gold. In recent weeks, two U.S. companies opened doors to production in the region. Nathan Trotter, a U.S. firm, signed a letter of intent with Rwanda-based Trinity Metals ...

BUKAVU: “We enter the mine like animals, on all fours, and if we get tired, we slide down on our bums,” says Hardy Bisi­mwa, a gold miner in DR Congo. The 22-year-old toils away at a mine in ...

Banro Corp., which explores for gold in the Democratic Republic of Congo, named former DRDGold Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Michael Prinsloo its new CEO as the company prepares to dig its first ...

Jason Stearns reviews "Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place" by Peter Eichstaedt.

KINSHASA, Congo -- For much of the past decade, radical Islamic organizations have increasingly turned to a shadowy, lucrative means of survival: diamonds from this vast, war-torn Central African ...

The global economic crisis has created an unlikely windfall for hand-panning gold miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but has raised fears that the true benefits of the boom will once ...

Congo also produces gold. In recent weeks, two U.S. companies opened doors to production in the region. Nathan Trotter, a U.S. firm, signed a letter of intent with Rwanda-based Trinity Metals ...

Congo also produces gold. In recent weeks, two U.S. companies opened doors to production in the region. Nathan Trotter, a U.S. firm, signed a letter of intent with Rwanda-based Trinity Metals ...