Africa's development bank is proposing a new 'gold standard' style currency arrangement backed by critical minerals such as ...

South Africa's rand gained on Friday, lifted by stronger precious metal prices and the local central bank's hawkish tone at a ...

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

A landslide has engulfed a group of mainly women gold miners in Mali, killing several of them. In a statement broadcast on ...

Libya holds the largest foreign exchange and gold reserves in Africa, according to Global Firepower, followed by Algeria and ...

Ghana plans to launch a Gold Board to streamline gold purchases from small-scale miners, increase earnings and reduce ...

The upcoming African Mining Week Summit, scheduled for October 1 - 3 in Cape Town, will highlight profitable opportunities ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

As the race for the minerals powering the energy transition intensifies and the price of gold rises, our unique ranking ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve them out.

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

Reflective Jewelry now imports and creates jewelry from responsibly sourced artisanal gold from the Democratic Republic of ...