9 subsistence miners die in Zimbabwe blasts
At least nine miners died in Zimbabwe following blasts in a shaft north of the capital Harare where they were illegally digging for gold, police said on Tuesday. "We confirm eight people died on Sunday
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You often get sick': the deadly toll of illegal gold mining in South Africa
On the outskirts of Durban Deep, an abandoned mining town with a labyrinth of underground tunnels long since abandoned by the big gold companies, Elizabeth goes rhythmically about her work. Grinding
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Tanzania gives Acacia Mining to March 30 to stop water pollution at one of its mines or face shutdown
Tanzania has given Acacia Mining Plc up to March 30 to stop waste water pollution at North Mara gold mine or face a shutdown, its mining minister said. Doto Biteko, said he had issued the deadline to
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Four missing after gold mine collapses in Mongolia
Four people are missing after a gold mine collapsed in Mongolia's central province of Tuv on Thursday afternoon, local media reported. Two miners have been rescued, and a search for the missing is continuing.
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Dozens buried by landslide at illegal goldmine in Indonesia
Dozens of people have been buried by a landslide at an unlicensed goldmine in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province, the national disaster agency has said, as emergency personnel used their bare hands and
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$180-mn programme to reform artisanal gold mining, cut mercury usage
At least 1,000 tonnes of mercury is released into the atmosphere and millions of men, women and children worldwide are exposed to its toxic emissions due to gold production every year. A new $180-million
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India’s first integrated gold mine set to start in Andhra Pradesh
Commercial production set to begin in 2020; expected to yield 750 kg per yr year. Vijayawada: Work on independent India’s first integrated Greenfield gold mining project in Andhra Pradesh is expected
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Dozens of gold miners killed in collapse in Afghanistan
At least 30 people were killed when a gold mine collapsed in northeastern Afghanistan in the latest tragedy to strike the war-torn country. Another seven were injured in the incident on Sunday in Kohistan
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Chad orders illegal gold miners out of troubled area
The Chadian government said Thursday it would assert control over part of the country's far north which has been troubled by a gold rush and a rebel incursion from neighbouring Libya. "The defence forces
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'Gold' rush hits tiny KZN village
"Gold diggers" from the rural village of KwaMachi in Harding, in the far south of KwaZulu-Natal, are spending nights and days at a local site where "gold" has been discovered. Armed with axes, pickaxes