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.

Credit: Women in Mining. “I chose my original career in ... However, after a decade working on World Bank, Asian Development and Caribbean Development Bank infrastructure and urban development ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) arrested 13 Chinese nationals on October 30 for illegal mining in Homonhon Island, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, the agency said on Sunday.

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 ...

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 ...