A Congolese court has sentenced three Chinese citizens to seven years in prison after they were arrested in possession of ...

Interpol says a major operation targeting illegal gold mining in West Africa has resulted in 200 arrests and the seizure of ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

The police said that the operation will continue for several days, as it involves the use of a metal cage to recover men and ...

Prominent Indonesian environmental forensic expert Bambang Hero Saharjo faces yet another potential lawsuit for serving as a ...

South African authorities have recovered 36 corpses and rescued 82 survivors from a gold mine during a two-day operation ...

Civil rights groups said at least 100 people have died from starvation since October when the authorities sealed off the mine in Stilfontein.

A total of 118 illegal miners, including 36 dead, have been extracted from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa. The ...

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

Three Chinese citizens have been sentenced to 7 years in prison and ordered to pay $600,000 in fines for illegally exploiting mineral resources in Congo, according to court filings ...

This is the first conviction by a Congolese court for unauthorised mining in the country, according to court documents.

Indonesia named five tin firms as "corporate suspects" in an illegal mining case linked to state mining firm PT Timah , the ...