The central government attached "great importance to Chinese citizens mining gold in Ghana", and had sent a joint investigation team comprising officials from the ministries of foreign affairs,...
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6 Jun 2013
A gold rush in the resource-rich west African country of Ghana, led by an estimated 50,000 Chinese prospectors, is threatening to turn nasty amid allegations of illegal mining and escalating...
3:50AM
4 Jun 2013
Chinese President Xi Jinping ended his six-day visit to Africa on a high note, leaving behind signed deals and warm pledges. The Republic of Congo was his final stop, after Tanzania and South...
5:13AM
25 Apr 2013
Huang Renzhong's striped parasol stands out against the muddy cliff of excavated earth.
The horizon is fringed with the tall trees of the Ghanaian rainforest, but for Huang, this...
4:18AM
30 Mar 2013
Only two bodies have been found so far at a Tibetan mine where a massive landslide wiped out a camp of 83 mine workers on Friday, state media reported. There were no survivors.
5:56AM
3 Jan 2013
A London-listed company's plans to create the world's first underwater goldmine on the Pacific seabed have hit the rocks. Nautilus Minerals' problems come as China and Russia's duel for riches at...
6:08AM
In Tanzania, I met "Julius", a boy of about 13, who works in an artisanal gold mine. He told me he digs ore in pits more than 15 metres deep and mixes toxic mercury with ground ore to retrieve the...
2:15AM
China has been the world's largest gold producer for five consecutive years and is poised to overtake India as the largest consumer this year, but its miners of the precious metal lack scale and...
4:27AM
Zijin Mining, the mainland's biggest gold miner, saw its share price tumble as much as 7 per cent after it announced its third operational crisis in 19 months, renewing concerns about its...
6:22AM
Keith Laskowski bounds up the freshly cut dirt road like a child at an amusement park. He stops at a patch of reddish rock, whacks at it with his miner's pick and slips a broken-off chunk into his...
12:18PM
Sino Gold, an Australian-listed gold-mining company, plans to seek approval for a secondary listing of about US$100 million in Hong Kong on January 25, market sources said.
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