Ghana is Africa’s top gold producer and the world’s sixth largest, but the commodity has been increasingly mined illegally as people become more desperate to find jobs in a crumbling economy. The ...

The Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission says the outcome of the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell project, if it ...

His single-propeller Cessna plane was loaded with more than 100 pounds of gold that ... illegal mining means that many of the small-scale operators are shutting down. But the people who have ...

Cristina Aldehuela People in Ghana are protesting illegal gold mining, which has poisoned over 60% of the country’s bodies of water. If illegal mining continues at the current rate, experts say ...

The chronic challenge of illegal gold mining — known locally as “galamsey ... but the commodity has been increasingly mined illegally as people become more desperate to find jobs ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

Ghana Soldiers Kill at Least 7 People Described as Illegal Gold Miners ... weapons breached the security fences of the Obuasi gold mining site in the Ashanti region on Saturday night.

It has brought up seven people,” Mzukisi Jam ... water and medicine to be sent down to the miners. Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa, where companies close down ...