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Waste from Angola's Catoca diamond mine leaked into waterways last month

25 Aug 2021

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UK gold miner Centamin seeks buyer for W African project

Shanima A 6 Aug 2021

A coal beacon hill mine in Tete. Joshua Kirshner, Author provided

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Zimbabwe finance minister Mthuli Ncube arrives to present the 2020 National Budget at Parliament Building in Harare, Zimbabwe, 14 November, 2019. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo

Zimbabwe sells gold refinery stake for $49m

30 Jul 2021

A worker drives a vehicle at Zimplats' Ngwarati Mine in Mhondoro-Ngezi, file. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo

Implats Zimbabwe unit plans 185MW solar power plants

27 Jul 2021

Artisanal miners work at the Tilwizembe, a former industrial copper-cobalt mine, outside of Kolwezi, the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 11 June, 2016. Reuters/Kenny Katombe

Congo's cobalt monopoly to set price floor for artisanal miners

16 Jul 2021

A woman walks over pipelines crisscrossing Ogoniland in Rivers State, Nigeria 18 September, 2020. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde//File Photo

Factbox: Nigeria's oil overhaul faces last battles over fuel, northern drilling

15 Jul 2021

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Botswana begins first iron ore mining project

14 Jul 2021

Artisanal miners work at a cobalt mine-pit in Tulwizembe, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo, 25 November, 2015. Reuters/Kenny Katombe/File Photo

Congo likely to start artisanal cobalt buying

Pratima Desai & Helen Reid 13 Jul 2021

Sandfire's T3 Motheo Mine. Source: Sandfire

Australia's Sandfire gets go-ahead to build Botswana copper mine

8 Jul 2021

A Zimbabwean miner works underground at Metallon Gold mine in Shamva, about 80 km north of the capital Harare, June 14, 2011. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

Zimbabwe to allow miners to export portion of their gold

29 Jun 2021

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How mining survived the pandemic

Yaa Agyare-Dwomoh 23 Jun 2021

Glencore says to restart Congo's Mutanda mine towards end of 2021

Hereward Holland 22 Jun 2021

A 1,098 carat diamond, discovered in Botswana and believed to be the third largest gem-quality stone ever to be mined, is seen in this undated handout picture received June 16, 2021. Debswana Diamond Company/Handout via Reuters.

Botswana unearths world's third largest diamond

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Source: Catoca Mining Company

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Zimbabwe finance minister Mthuli Ncube arrives to present the 2020 National Budget at Parliament Building in Harare, Zimbabwe, 14 November, 2019. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo

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A worker drives a vehicle at Zimplats' Ngwarati Mine in Mhondoro-Ngezi, file. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo

Implats Zimbabwe unit plans 185MW solar power plants

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Artisanal miners work at the Tilwizembe, a former industrial copper-cobalt mine, outside of Kolwezi, the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 11 June, 2016. Reuters/Kenny Katombe

Congo's cobalt monopoly to set price floor for artisanal miners

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A woman walks over pipelines crisscrossing Ogoniland in Rivers State, Nigeria 18 September, 2020. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde//File Photo

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Source: ©Peter Titmuss

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Artisanal miners work at a cobalt mine-pit in Tulwizembe, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo, 25 November, 2015. Reuters/Kenny Katombe/File Photo

Congo likely to start artisanal cobalt buying

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Sandfire's T3 Motheo Mine. Source: Sandfire

Australia's Sandfire gets go-ahead to build Botswana copper mine

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A Zimbabwean miner works underground at Metallon Gold mine in Shamva, about 80 km north of the capital Harare, June 14, 2011. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

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Glencore says to restart Congo's Mutanda mine towards end of 2021

Hereward Holland 22 Jun 2021

A 1,098 carat diamond, discovered in Botswana and believed to be the third largest gem-quality stone ever to be mined, is seen in this undated handout picture received June 16, 2021. Debswana Diamond Company/Handout via Reuters.

Botswana unearths world's third largest diamond

Brian Benza 17 Jun 2021

Vale to pay $2.5bn to settle liabilities in Mozambique mine corridor

Marta Nogueira 9 Jun 2021

Obuasi Mine. Image: AngloGold Ashanti

AngloGold Ashanti suspends Obuasi output, cost guidance after underground collapse

Tanisha Heiberg 27 May 2021

Glencore to restart operations at Mutanda copper, cobalt mine in 2022

Pratima Desai 19 May 2021

Artisanal miners work at a cobalt mine-pit in Tulwizembe, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of Congo, November 25, 2015. Picture taken November 25, 2015. Reuters/Kenny Katombe/File Photo

Cobalt, Congo and a mass artisanal mining experiment

Andy Home 14 May 2021

Gold is key to the economic survival of millions of Ghanaians. Knut-Erik Helle/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Ghana needs to rethink its small scale mining strategy. Here's how

Richard Kwaku Kumah 16 Apr 2021

Rescuers work in Kamituga, South Kivu, at the entrance of one of the mines which collapsed following torrential rains trapping dozens of artisanal miners in September 2020. Photo by Stringer/AFP via Getty Images

How large miners and states stifle local capital and innovation in DR Congo

Ben Radley & Sara Geenen 13 Apr 2021

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Botswana must curb diamond reliance: president

Matthew Larotonda 15 Feb 2021

Mopani Copper Mine. Image: ZCCM

Glencore sells Mopani stake to ZCCM

19 Jan 2021

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A creuseur or digger, descends into a tunnel at the mine in Kawama, Democratic Republic of Congo. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images

As cobalt demand booms, companies must do more to protect Congolese miners

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Illicit gold thrives in DRC

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Kibali Mine is fully automated. Image: Barrick Gold Corporation

Covid is forcing the mining sector to adopt technology

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Ivanhoe's Kamoa-Kakula Mine in DRC

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Miners bump heads over DRC mining code

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Covid-19 is underscoring the vulnerable lives of Kenya's artisanal gemstone miners

Judy N Muthuri 18 Jun 2020

Going underground in Camarines Norte province, Philippines. EPA

Meet the struggling gold miners who are missing out on boom in the precious metal

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Mining in a post-Covid DRC will be "survival of the fittest"

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JP Casey 21 Feb 2020

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#MiningIndaba2020: Gold(en) opportunities in West Africa

Nicci Botha 6 Feb 2020

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China's investment in Africa's mineral resources

20 Jan 2020

Obuasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana has a long history with mining companies. Wikimedia Commons

Ghana's mining communities are still not getting their just dues

Päivi Lujala 9 Jan 2020

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