Critical minerals factor into the fight.

Images of devastation in Goma have begun to shift attention toward the crisis in DR Congo, pushing celebrities to boycott Rwanda.

Underpinned by President Trump’s mining-friendly policies, Terra Metals Inc. is advancing its operations to reshape Zambia’s ...

Bitcoin mining involves solving complex mathematical puzzles, validating transactions and securing the network. Miners compete to find the correct hash, adding new blocks to the blockchain and ...

Gecamines, which holds minority stakes in several of the world's largest copper and cobalt projects, has long been dogged by ...

Marcellin Paluku is a senior government official who told the media that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is currently the world's largest cobalt producer, has been courting Saudi Arabian ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...

Mining is the process of adding and validating transaction records on the Bitcoin public blockchain ledger while securing uptime for the network. This is how the network persists without relying ...

Rescuers have spent Tuesday pulling body bags and survivors from a South African mine where scores of illegal miners are still thought to be at least 2km (1.2 miles) underground. Eighty-two people ...

DRC Reports Decline in Child Labor in Cobalt Mines Amid Controversy In its report published on December 31, 2024, the National Human Rights Commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo (CNDH ...

The UK will have to consider subsidies for new mines and ... when cobalt supplies ran short in the 1990s, at the height of the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, some sectors had ...

Robert Sanford Stewart, the Canadian national who was executive manager of the mining company American Mineral Fields (AMF), was in Durban this week to promote a group opposing the regime of head of ...