Employees and mining experts say the Chinese use mercury in its operations ... on the nervous and immune systems. One 27-year-old woman who worked as a cook for Kimia for six months and lives ...

STAKEHOLDERS in the mining sector should make a deliberate effort to empower women, persons with disabilities (PWDs) and youths to actively participate in the mining sector, a senator has said.

Women protesters in Guinea-Bissau on Sunday attacked a Chinese-run site in the northwest of the country mining zircon, setting fire to equipment, the interior minister and witnesses said.

But instead of the local officials promising to look into the issue, the women say they were taken to the police station and harshly warned to stop criticizing the sprawling Chinese mining project ...

Protesters took to the streets of Bukavu last week after Chinese men arrested on suspicion of illegal mining in a separate case were released. "Our minerals are being plundered by companies that ...

In July, the region suspended all mining activities in an effort to put an end to this practice, which has been documented to harm the environment and encroach on wildlife preserves. Many Chinese ...