In 2008, miners sifting through the sands of Namibia’s Sperrgebiet — a restricted diamond mining zone near the Skeleton Coast ...

At least 100 people are feared dead following the collapse of a gold mining pit in Nigeria's Zamfara State, survivors and ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

A metal detectorist discovered a Byzantine era hoard of gold coins and jewelry near the Sea of Galilee. Archaeologists near ...

Democratic Republic of Congo says it loses 60 tons of gold a year to smuggling. The new mines minister wants the country to ...

Twenty-three workers have been rescued after spending 43 hours trapped in a collapsed underground gold mine in northern Colombia.

Government and company officials in Colombia say that a collapse at the gold mine in the north of the country has trapped ...

The Dinokeng Game Reserve in South Africa has a thriving rhino population, but their exact numbers and the details of the ...

These ASX explorers have major corporate backing as they look to establish polymetallic deposits of global scale in WA.

Government has implemented Operation Vala Umgodi, a police strategy to deal with illegal mining by closing the access to the mines and forcing the illegal miners out.

Men's winner Simbu is Tanzania's first gold medallist at Worlds; German runner-up Petros is a former refugee from Eritrea.