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.

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 ...

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.

This is the case in the mining sector, which is conventionally male-dominated. Initiatives such as 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining (WIM100), launched by Women in Mining UK, as well as ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It took accountancy graduate Yang Jiao four months to find a job last year in what was one of the toughest ...