There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the earth of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a war is currently ...

Kibali, Africa's largest gold mine, is jointly operated by Barrick, AngloGold Ashanti, and the Congolese state-owned company Sokimo. After producing 762,000 ounces in 2023, the mine recorded an 8% ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

The upcoming African Mining Week Summit, scheduled for October 1 - 3 in Cape Town, will highlight profitable opportunities ...

He said a team from the bureau posing as traditional miners traveled to the mining areas and saw what he called a "sad" situation. "It is so scary," Gizachew said, sharing a video of a cow affected by ...

African Mining Week (AMW) 2025 – held under the theme, From Extraction to Beneficiation: Unlocking Africa’s Mineral Wealth – ...

A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...

Rwanda-backed rebels said on Monday they captured Goma in eastern Congo, the government's last stronghold in the mineral-rich ...

Lake Katwe’s artisanal salt mining thrives on traditional methods and unique natural processes but faces challenges from ...

What he didn’t know then was that the man, who ran a bar-come-brothel, was ‘patient zero’ in an outbreak of a new, more dangerous strain of mpox called clade 1b, which would trigger a global health ...