While women make up a large percentage of the ASM workforce —they are largely invisible within the data.

Many companies are engaged in the gold mining business, but the industry is dominated by a select group of players.

According to the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mine workers ordered two soldiers to beat up the artisanal miners.

The company has also commenced mine extension drilling at Mpama North.

China’s Jiangxi Copper had been speculated as a potential suitor for minority interests in First Quantum’s Kansanshi and Sentinel mines.

Former Glencore trader said he was part of a bribery scheme to win oil contracts from Nigeria transferred $300,000 of company funds in 2014 to an intermediary who’d requested the cash to benefit a senior government official in the nation’s elections.