Mwamba Mining has been highlighted as a notable success story in a recent World Gold Council report examining the role of ...

Across West Africa, mercury — a potent neurotoxin — remains the dominant method for extracting gold from ore in the region’s ...

Formalizing Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) for Growth: Mining in Motion to Unpack Ghana’s Success, Ongoing ...

Artisanal lead mining in Nigeria is responsible for airborne lead exposures that are 10 times the U.S. Permissible Exposure ...

An armed group has attacked an artisanal gold mining site in southern Mali, one of Africa’s largest gold-producing countries.

Informal lead mining is a growing activity in many countries around the world in countries including Nigeria, Zambia and ...

KEDOUGOU, Senegal — The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says, is with a drop of mercury. She empties a dime-sized packet of the silvery liquid into a plastic bucket of ...