Niger has moved to nationalise a uranium mine jointly operated with French state-owned Orano, while Guinea has revoked scores of licences across its gold, bauxite, diamond, graphite and iron sectors.

Child labourers in Africa are being rebranded as 'artisanal miners' – it's time for the West to stop ignoring modern slavery ...

A US-brokered peace deal aims to end Congo’s long war, but with rebels absent from the ...

The demand for cobalt and other minerals is fueling a decades-long humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In pursuit of money to support their families, Congolese laborers ...

Copper miners with productive assets have much to gain as supply and demand tighten. In May 2024, the copper price hit a new ...

Why does China control so much of the rare earth supply? China mines 70 percent of the world’s rare earths. Myanmar, Australia and the United States mine most of the rest.

Though its mines provided the uranium for the Nagasaki and Hiroshima A-bombs, the durable giant known as the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga had never been so preoccupied with explosives as it was ...

Only a few miles away are the mine shafts and chimneys of the huge copper and cobalt complex that makes secessionist Katanga the envy of its neighbors.

Most of the cobalt mining workforce in the DRC—estimates suggest as much as 98%—stems from labor intensive "artisanal" mining, which produces 9%-20% of the national cobalt production.

Some three quarters of the word’s supply of cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where children as young as 10 years old help extract the metal from hand dug shafts in the ...