It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths of ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 3,000-year-old gold mining and processing complex that opens a rare window into how an ancient imperial economy actually worked. Instead of a single shaft or ...

A noticeable shift is currently taking place in African mining, as mineral resources are increasingly being viewed as the ...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Aug. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY; OTCQB: LKYRF – https://www.locksleyresources.com.au) today announced the company submitted an expanded Plan of ...

On a winding, empty desert road outside the city of Copiapó in northern Chile on Monday, my taxi driver and I came upon Bernarda Lorca pushing her wheelchair toward the San José gold and copper mine.

Zijin Mining's billion-dollar takeover deal for Allied Gold, worth CAD 5.5 billion, is accelerating the wave of consolidation in the African gold sector. Driven by record prices for precious metals, h ...