Delegates from mining communities across the globe met in Cape Town to discuss their grievances and protest the international mining industry.
Abandoned mines, a shrinking minerals extraction workforce and traditional practices combine to produce small-scale miners in South Africa.
Southern Africa finds itself at the center of the offshore bulk sediment mining debate as international companies rush to strip mine phosphate deposits in coastal waters of South Africa and Namibia.
With South Africa in the midst of a historic drought, the government continues to allow ambitious prospecting for coal mines in water-sensitive areas.
There's a new gold rush under way in northern Haiti, one of the world's poorest countries. Critics fear that it's foreign mining companies, not the people of Haiti, who are likely to benefit most.
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