The government of President Dina Boluarte has extended Peru's small-scale mining formalization program through December, even ...

A team of scientists from Flinders University have developed a method to extract gold from ore and e-waste using ...

Authorities in Ghana arrested 15 people in a crackdown on illegal mining — also known as galamsey — intensifying ongoing ...

A new gold extraction method turns old electronics into treasure using pool disinfectant and sunlight — no poisons required.

A pool cleaner and a spongy polymer can turn used and discarded electronic items into a treasure trove of gold.

Introduction Illegal mining, especially artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM), has proliferated across many developing ...

A new technique has been developed to safely and sustainably extract gold from e-waste, reducing reliance on toxic chemicals ...

Co-chair of the Ghana Extractive Industries and Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) Dr Steve Manteaw, has encouraged small-scale miners to operate more responsibly to gain government’s recognition and ...

According to the association, Ghana's economic progress is heavily reliant on the mining sector, and therefore, the ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has announced that the country’s gold reserves have risen to 32.99 tonnes as of June 2025, continuing ...

At Kitanda Village in Kiruuma Sub-county, Mubende District, hundreds of artisan miners engage in the gold mining business. They built makeshift homesteads, using mud, tarpaulin, and reeds, ...

By the fiscal year 2024/25, mining revenue soared 1.06tri/-, with small-scale miners contributing to 40 percent of that ...