A disturbing article this week in the FT reports how cassiterite sourced through the use of child and slave labour has made it into the supply chains of global electronic goods manufacturers.

The Brazilian Amazon hosts a huge mineral wealth, ranging from bauxite and cassiterite to tin, nobium, tantalum and coltan, providing raw materials for the steel industry, electronics, technology and ...

The Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board (RMB) has announced August 16, 2025 as the deadline for investors to submit applications for licenses to operate in 10 ready-to-invest-in mining concessions ...

When it comes to “conflict minerals,” diamonds get the most attention. But diamonds aren’t the only minerals being sold to finance wars. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, minerals such as ...

Kigali — Rwanda's mineral export volume in the 3rd quarter of 2009 registered an upward trend compared to the same period last year, but export receipts declined on account of low prices on the ...

Frederic Gautier has been thinking a lot about death recently. The miner, from South Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), thought about it as he cowered under his bed to escape a ...

Kigali — An electric arc smelter for one of the mining operators in western province. Rwanda's mineral revenues remain dominated by cassiterite, a tin oxide mineral (SnO2) which fetched revenues to ...

Dual-listed Alphamin Resources, which produces about 4% of the world’s mined tin from its operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has identified a strike extension at its Mpama North ...

Floresta Nacional de Altamira (Flona de Altamira) spans some 724,965 hectares in the state of Pará, and is home to a rich diversity of plants and animals, including several species threatened with ...

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine, and is the oldest scientific academy in ...