FOCUS ON AFRICA The Great Lakes region is the world’s largest producer of coltan and a key location for AB Minerals' first processing plant Mining and metals company AB Minerals is introducing a new ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as part of ...

South Africa’s critical minerals strategy is not embedded in a modernised mining policy aligned with an industrial policy.

At a Johannesburg hearing, activists said South Africa’s coal and iron mining industries are using violence and intimidation ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, ...

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights advocates and community leaders call the tactics inhumane. By Lynsey Chutel ...

London-listed Aterian secures £455,000 ($610,000) from investors. Funds to support operations in Rwanda, Botswana, and Morocco. Company expands focus on copper, lithium, and coltan projects across ...

Hundreds of illegal miners are trapped underground in a derelict Stilfontein mine in South Africa. While the human cost has sparked outrage, questions remain over who is responsible for the escalating ...

Rescue workers look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Thursday. They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal.

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft this ...