In a significant development, the Johannesburg High Court has granted permission to appeal an earlier ruling that denied class action certification for 140,000 women and chil Read more »
Villagers in Madagascar are suing Rio Tinto, a major mining company, claiming the company's mine has polluted nearby lakes and rivers with lead and uranium. The 64 residents of ... Read more »
The DR Congo accounts for about two-thirds of the world's cobalt, a key component of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power electronic devices and electric vehicles, ... Read more »
In communities across three provinces, the walls of homes are being cracked and their floors are collapsing as houses are being damaged by unabated mine blasting, writes Read more »
The government has issued an export permit for all the 277 containers full of gold and copper concentrates which had been held in Dar es Salaam since 2017. This comes after Barrick ... Read more »
A Sky News investigation and Amnesty International report has found that children as young as four are working in dangerous and squalid conditions in mines, and the cobalt that is ... Read more »
Decades of lead mining by Anglo-Americans left the Kabwe community in Zambia gasping for breath, literally and figuratively. The land is choked with lead dust, the air thick with ... Read more »
An inquiry into the fatal incident at South Africa's Impala Platinum (Implats) Mine at Rustenburg in the North West province, in which 11 miners died and 75 were injured on ... Read more »
According to GroundUp, just over half of the claims in a long-running U.S.$759,802 (R14.25 million) "SLAPP" defamation action, brought by Australian mining interests Read more »
The new rush for lithium in Africa risks fueling corruption and harming local communities and the environment, investigations have shown, writes Kate HairsineRead more »
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