By Michel Nkurunziza Published: November 03, 2021 The CEO of Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board, Yamina Karitanyi, has encouraged mining operators … More
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Zimbabwe: RDC Levies – Small Miners Cry Foul
3rd NOVEMBER 2021 The Herald (Harare) Business Correspondent SMALL-SCALE miners and local mining firms have raised concerns over exorbitant levies … More
Madagascar’s lucrative mining sector ‘crippled by trafficking’
Issued on: 27/10/2021 – 17:21 Text by: Amanda Morrow with RFI 1 min Listen to the article A dozen civil society … More
Canada: First Nation’s Legal Action Challenges B.C.’s Colonial Mining Law – Groups Urge Reform
26 October 2021, 6:08 PM EDT Source: BC Mining Law Reform, UVIC Environmental Law Center, MiningWatch Canada, Northern Confluence Victoria/Smithers, B.C. … More
Dark side of the mine: journalist unearths human cost of smartphones in DRC
PRIX BAYEUX 2021 Issued on: 22/10/2021 – 15:12 Text by: Ollia Horton Follow 5 min Listen to the article War correspondent … More
Still No Justice for Killing of South African Mining Activist
22 October 22, 2021 8:42AM EDT|Dispatches Investigate Fikile Ntshangase’s Murder and Hold Killers Responsi Senior Researcher, Environment and Human Rights … More
Kenya: Mercury, the Silent Killer of the Gold Miners of Migori
20 October 2021 By Ian Byron John Ochola vigorously swirls the silver-metallic syrupy liquid on a half-a-litre plastic water bottle … More
Bolivian Citizens Block Mill Operations, Accuse Canadian Company of Destroying UNESCO World Heritage Site
News Release 20 October 2021, 8:00 am EDT Source: MiningWatch Canada Santa Cruz, Bolivia. On October 12th, 2021 leaders of the Comité … More
After mining, DR Congo turns focus on ‘illegal’ forest harvesting contracts
TUESDAY OCTOBER 19 2021 Workers at a forest harvesting site in the Congo basin. FILE PHOTO | BIOSPHOTO | AFP … More
Child miners: the dark side of the DRC’s coltan wealth
ISS Today Laws and certification schemes aren’t protecting the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s most vulnerable – a fresh approach … More
