Artisanal mining is a common activity across much of West Africa ... artisanal gold mining site in the Kangaba Cercle. Sign up here. Around 130 people were arrested on Tuesday in a large-scale ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world by land area. Located in Central Africa, it shares borders with nine countries, ...

Thin gold films offer a broad range of benefits for electronics due to their high electrical conductivity and transparency. Current manufacturing methods are unable to achieve gold films thinner than ...

One of Canada’s largest mining investors, Sprott, has agreed to provide a finance package to Québec-based but West Africa-focused gold miner Robex Resources (TSX-V:RBX). Sprott Resource Lending ...

South Africa's second-largest trade union federation called the incident “one of the most horrific displays of state wilful negligence in recent history." As the Telegraph put it, illegal miners make ...

NAIROBI, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Africa's development bank is proposing a new 'gold standard' style currency ... is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A portion of Interstate 40 in West Nashville was partially closed for hours Friday morning following a crash that left three people injured. The crash happened in the ...

Despite its large size, the study includes only four countries, so it represents just a fraction of Africa's vast ecological and cultural diversity. Moreover, the study's HIV-related findings ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A group of migrants who survived the capsizing of a boat off the coast of West Africa earlier this month began returning to Pakistan on Thursday, the country's Ministry of Foreign ...

FILE -Members stand for the arrival of dignitaries at a joint press conference by African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) electoral observers in Abuja, Nigeria, Feb.

Illegal miners trapped in one of South Africa’s deepest gold reserves have shared their shocking experience of turning to cannibalism to stay alive. The group had been stuck in the abandoned ...