How illegal gold mining is leaving a trail of destruction and threatening lives in the mineral-rich city of Kwekwe.
World’s second largest diamond found in Botswana.
X-ray technology used to find the 2,492-carat stone in the African country’s Karowe Diamond Mine.
The clock is ticking, and the decisions we make today will have a profound impact on the future of our planet.
Local miners in Central African Republic face eviction and violence as Russian group takes over gold and diamond mines.
The territory voted in 2019 to leave Papua New Guinea, but the country’s parliament is still to ratify the separation.
Removal of Orano licence highlights tensions with France, with Russia said to be eyeing the major site.
India has sought rights to explore an underwater cobalt-rich mountain. But Sri Lanka also has eyes on the region.
Small-scale miners are finding ways to navigate decreased demand and lower prices of the raw material they supply.
101 East investigates the impact of illegally mining India’s mountains as desperate residents take on powerful miners.
At 26 years old, Steve Chingwaru uncovered 420 tonnes of gold in buried mining waste. Now everyone wants to hire him.
Electric vehicle adoption ‘inevitable’ in US, but unclear how fast transition will happen, experts say.
The dark side of ‘green energy’: The real cost of cobalt mining in the DRC and how it impacts the nation’s environment.
The women blockade a bridge in shifts to protest against a mine that has made their village unfit to live in.
