The standoff between police and miners began last November, when police surrounded the abandoned gold mine’s entrance, with the goal of forcing the miners to emerge and then arresting them.

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of miners were reported to be trapped and starving CARLETONVILLE, South ...

Bitcoin miners are seeing a threefold profitability margin despite rising network difficulty, according to data from Glassnode. New results from the Bitcoin (BTC) Difficulty Regression Model ...

A total of eight illegal miners were killed and one seriously injured, last weekend, after a group of about 60 attempted to forcibly enter the Deep Decline area of the AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine, ...

A violent clash between illegal miners and military men guarding AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine’s concession at Cote D’or, a popular area in the mining town of Obuasi has left 10 people dead with ...

The Ghana Armed Forces said about 60 illegal miners, armed with among others things "pump action guns", had forced their way into the mine run by global giant AngloGold Ashanti and fired at the ...

Over ten people are feared dead after an overnight clash between some small scale miners and military men in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region. Reports suggest that in the early hours of today ...

Accra, Jan. 19, GNA – The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) says seven illegal miners have died after a shootout with military men on duty at the Obuasi AngloGold Ashanti mining site on Saturday, January 18, ...