Indian-origin diamond businessman Dhiru Ramani, allegedly kidnapped in Mali in April, has been released after his family reportedly paid a €4 million ransom. The 75-year-old remains in Mali for police questioning following negotiations handled privately by his US-based family
Khartoum: At least 38 people have been killed after a gold mine collapsed in West Kordofan state in southern Sudan, a government company announced in a statement. “The General Manager of the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company Limited mourns the death of 38 miners who died as a result of the collapse of Umm Draisaya mine,” […]
Illegal or informal mining operations are commonplace in Indonesia, providing a tenuous livelihood to those who labour in conditions with a high risk of serious injury or death.
Twenty-two miners were trapped about 600 meters underground following an explosion on January 10 at a partially built gold mine in Qixia, under the city of Yantai, in Shandong Province.
