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By Anne Mimault OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - The president of Burkina Faso's mines chamber said on Monday extra measures would be...

By Anthony Boadle and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) - An illegal gold mining boom on Brazil's largest indigenous reservation has...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has agreed to freeze the assets in the EU of the boss of Russia's...

By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran authorities ordered a subsidiary of Canada's Aura Minerals Inc to suspend open-pit gold...

By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Honduran government's recent push to sharply restrict mining will not apply to existing...

By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Environmental permits for Honduran metal and non-metal mining will be cancelled, the country's government...

By Thiam Ndiaga and Anne Mimault OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -One person has been detained and an investigation opened to determine the...

ACCRA (Reuters) -The Spanish company in charge of a truck that exploded and killed 13 people last month en route...

By Cooper Inveen and Christian Akorlie APIATE, Ghana (Reuters) -At least 13 people were killed and scores injured when a...

By Eliasu Mohammed ACCRA (Reuters) -An explosion in Ghana's rural Western Region on Thursday razed hundreds of buildings and killed...

By Hereward Holland KINSHASA (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Democratic Republic of Congo have asked Barrick Gold Corp to secure the...

CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's junta has appointed Moussa Magassouba, the director general of AngloGold Ashanti subsidiary in the country as...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -A convoy transporting staff and contractors for Iamgold's Essakane gold mine in northern Burkina Faso was attacked on...

KINSHASA (Reuters) -At least one person was killed during protests last week against evictions of people in illegal settlements near...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Two Yanomami children drowned in a river on their reservation where illegal gold miners operate a dredger,...

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Five gendarmes were killed and four were injured when a convoy they were escorting to an Australian-owned...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Unidentified armed men killed six gendarmes and wounded seven others in an attack on a convoy of...