Mercury use by Uganda’s small-scale gold miners
A new five year project is seeking to eliminate mercury use among Uganda’s artisanal and small scale miners. The project which is targeting 4,500 artisanal...
Category : Health and Safety
Students raise awareness about exploitation of coltan and e-waste dumping in Africa
Dr. Chinekwu Obidoa, associate professor of global health and Africana studies, and students in her INT 301 course, titled Globalization: Africa’s Experiences, will present an...
Adventists join call for ban on small scale mining
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has designated the fourth Saturday in October as Creation Sabbath. Saturday, October 22, 2022 was marked as the Creation Sabbath, a special...
Toilet caves in due to in-house mining and woman dies
The Konongo-Odumase Township was thrown into mourning in the early hours of Sunday when a toilet caved in, swallowing a 24-year-old woman who was attending...
Chinese companies slated for mercury pollution in Cameroon
Civil society groups have raised the alarm over pollution of rivers in eastern and northern Cameroon by gold mining companies. The Centre for Environment and...
Sierra Leone: Environment – Impacts of Illegal Mining Activities: Threat to Water Security, Human Health, and Potential National Public Health Emergency
The availability of abundant natural resources in a country is considered to be a blessing by many because of the potential to change the destiny...
South Africa: Abandoned Coal Mines Pose Deadly Risk
Hundreds of South Africa’s abandoned coal mines pose a deadly risk to local communities and threaten to pollute the water of millions of South Africans...
Momentum behind collision prevention on mines
While Proximity Detection Systems (PDSs) have been around for little more than 15 years, the offerings on the market today are streets ahead of what...
Sudan’s gold rush wreaks havoc on health
Sudanese mother Awadya Ahmed has long wondered why her youngest child Talab was born blind and unable to walk; now she suspects the piles of...
Gov’t determined to stop pollution of water bodies – Mireku Duker
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has reiterated the Government’s commitment to stop the pollution of water bodies by activities of illegal miners in...