Illegal gold mining, known locally as “galamsey,” has spread across Ghana this year, driven by a historic rise in global gold ...

Illegal mining inside the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread, ...

The narrative of criminality is dangerous. It dehumanises destitute people, who are forced into informal mining to escape ...

Peru's Congress removed Energy and Mines minister Romulo Mucho from his post on Tuesday as protesters from small-scale miners ...

The Russian power provider Rosseti is stepping up its crackdown on illegal crypto mining, and has seized 110 rigs in a major ...

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 ...

Police in the North West have retracted earlier claims that extortion attempts had hindered efforts to rescue illegal miners ...

The police and Department of Environment and Natural Resources-12 have once again launched a crackdown on small-scale illegal ...

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

Illegal artisanal gold mining in South Africa is in the spotlight again. Under Operation Vala Umgodi ("plug the hole"), South African authorities have since December 2023 been trying to disrupt ...