More than 40 people killed in Mali mine collapse
Bamako, Mali Reuters Forty-three people, mostly women, were killed after an artisanal gold mine collapsed in western Mali on Saturday, the head of an industry union said. The accident took place near the town of Kenieba in Mali’s gold-rich Kayes region, Taoule Camara, secretary general of the national union of gold counters and refineries (UCROM), […]
Essay: “We miners die a lot.” Appalling conditions and poverty wages – the lives of cobalt miners in the DRC
In an in-depth essay, scholar ROY MACONACHIE, in an article first published on The Conversation, reports on the plight of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s cobalt miners…