Raiders attacked a gold mine in Ituri, in the strife-torn northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 35 people, according to local sources. The CODECO militia, according to Jean-Pierre Bikilisende of the rural Mungwalu village in Djugu, Ituri, carried out the attack on the artisanal mine. Bikilisende stated that the militia stormed … Read more
Police said a cliff crumbled, triggering a landslide that buried 12 women working in an illicit gold mine in Indonesia’s North Sumatra region. Unlicensed mines are ubiquitous across Indonesia’s mineral-rich country, with abandoned sites attracting people who scavenge for residual gold ore without employing required safety equipment. A crumbling cliff in North Sumatra’s Mandailing Natal … Read more
TOKYO – “Sado Kinzan Gold Mine, located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, is a collection of historic relics depicting the 400-year history of Sado’s gold and silver mines. A guided tour, which includes facilities such as ‘the Best Gold Processing Plant in Asia’ and ‘Japan’s First Western-Style Vertical Tunnel’, will cause visitors to marvel at the … Read more
OUAGADOUGOU – An explosion at a gold mine in Burkina Faso Monday afternoon killed at least 55 people and wounded a similar number, local and medical sources told AFP. The blast, at a makeshift gold-panning site at Gomgombiro in the southwest of the country happened when a stock of dynamite blew up, said local officials … Read more
At least 50 people have reportedly died as a gold mine collapsed near Kamituga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. A local mining NGO reported the news. Emiliane Itongwa, president of the Initiative of Support and Social Supervision of Women, reported that the mine collapsed on the Detroit mine site on Friday … Read more
At least 52 people died when an illegal gold mine collapsed due to landsliding in northern Republic of Chad in north-central Africa. Government officials initially said as many as 30 people may have died when the mine caved in on Tuesday in Kouri Bougoudi, in Tibesti province, near the Libyan border, an area rife with … Read more
