Costa Rica and Honduras have both banned open-pit mining ... north of the capital San Salvador that successfully opposed a gold mine project in 2006. Antonio Pacheco, of the Association of ...

The collapse on February 15 of an artisanal gold mine killed 43 people, mostly women, in the gold-rich Kayes region. Sign up here. On January 29, 13 artisanal miners, including women and three ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali said on Wednesday it was suspending licenses for foreign artisanal gold mining companies after a series of fatal accidents in the West African country, one of Africa’s ...