“Childcare is one less thing to worry about when I am inside that tunnel,” says 39-year-old Thacienne Nakabonye, pointing at the marked entrance of a Wolfram quarry on a hill overlooking a nearby steep valley. Nakabonye is one of the scores of miners who spend most of the daytime beneathContinue Reading
One person has been detained and an investigation opened to determine the cause of an explosion that killed scores of people at an informal gold miners market in Burkina Faso, a judicial source said on Tuesday. The blast happened on Monday in the rural commune of Gbomblora in the southwesternContinue Reading
Mining company, Newmont Ghana, has supported relief efforts for the victims of the explosion at Appiatse in the Western North Region with construction materials and consumables. The items, which included roofing sheets, iron rods, cement and food, were presented in response to the government’s call for support from the publicContinue Reading
