CIVICUS discusses environmental accountability in Zambia with Christian-Geraud Neema, Africa editor at the China Global South Project, an independent journalism initiative that covers and follows China’s activities in global south countries. A group of 176 Zambian farmers has filed a…

Sudan produced 70 tons of gold in 2025, exceeding its annual production target, the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company [SMRC] has reported. In a statement published on Facebook on Monday, the state-owned company said gold output reached 113% of the planned…

Planning for the climate-driven decline of skiing, Aspen would do well to mark the rise in silver prices and reinstate the old mining town’s industrial past. Silver mining could become a retro economic engine, a fitting alternative to dependence on…

Sometime it feels like the year just flies by. But so much has happened, so let’s recap for you. JANUARY: President Trump took the oath of office for a second time. That first month, he signed an executive order about…

Accused of being a smokescreen for metals smuggled from DR Congo, the country now boasts Africa’s largest tungsten mine Beneath the Rwandan hillside at Nyakabingo, hundreds of miners unearth daily a metal used in bombs and bullets that is central…

A few years ago, asteroid mining was all the rage. With the commercial space sector rapidly growing, the dream of commercializing space seemed almost imminent. Basically, the notion of having platforms and spacecraft that could rendezvous and mine Near Earth…

Chinese mine operators in Zambia started paying royalties and taxes in yuan in Africa’s second-biggest copper producer, the latest sign of the growing acceptance of the currency on the continent. Payments using the Chinese unit began in October, the Bank…

At the end of the fourth quarter the MINING.COM TOP 50* ranking of the world’s most valuable miners had a combined market capitalization of $2.17 trillion, up an astonishing $892 billion in 2025. Most of the gains accumulated in the…