Illegal mining in Peru is threatening water sources, ecosystems and one of the world's most important archeological sites, ...

Mining companies do not improve conditions for most members of a community, in fact, they actually negatively impact communities in a number of ways. The argument given for mining is that while it may ...

New research from the University of St Andrews, with Oxford Brookes University and the University of Liverpool, has found that business start-up rates are significantly lower in former mining ...

The casualty figure could have been much higher but for the swift escape of several miners who fled immediately the gunmen ...

Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has raised the alarm over the unregulated influx of people from northern states into the state’s mining communities, warning that some arrivals are importing ...

These dynamics reflect the growing role of armed groups in illicit mineral trade networks and the weakening of state ...

Obuasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana has a long history with mining companies. Wikimedia Commons Ghana has gold, diamonds, bauxite, manganese, salt, limestone, granite and oil. Its mining and ...

The Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office (MCO) has declared that the future of mining in Nigeria will depend not only on government ...