Carla Sands reacted to gold prices dropping from inflation news and mining, and how to prevent the commodity from falling into the wrong hands on Wednesday's "Bianca Across The Nation."
More than 100 miners are dead after underground tunnels collapsed at an unregulated gold mine near the Central African Republic's border with Cameroon, and rescuers say the body count keeps climbing. Several tunnels at an artisanal mining site in Zamboye gave way roughly two days before recovery teams pulled more than ten additional bodies from […] The post Gold mine collapse in Central African Republic kills more than 100 as rescue efforts falter appeared first on American Almanac .
More than 100 miners are dead after underground tunnels collapsed at an unregulated gold mine near the Central African Republic's border with Cameroon, and rescuers say the body count keeps climbing. Several tunnels at an artisanal mining site in Zamboye gave way roughly two days before recovery teams pulled more than ten additional bodies from the debris on Thursday morning alone. Local Red Cross volunteer Gervais Ganagoro told the Associated Press that hopes of finding anyone alive were fading fast. A court in the Baboua subprefecture, the local administrative jurisdiction, confirmed that the tunnels caved in and triggered a landslide. It opened an investigation to determine why the tunnels failed, identify the dead, track down…Open
More than 100 people were killed and several people are still missing after a gold mine collapsed in the Central African Republic, according to the Associated Press.
NPR reports from Mongbwalu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The fight to contain the virus faces obstacles from lack of supplies to residents who doubt that the virus is real.
Mining has been the lifeblood of this remote Congolese hill town for decades. Now, it is fueling the spread of a devastating outbreak.
A remote gold mining town is under siege, as medical workers struggle to beat back a surge of deaths and infections.
An international effort to free the trapped men brought attention to the country’s informal mines, where panning for gold can pay more than minimum wage.
The epicenter of the Ebola outbreak is in Mongbwalu, a poor gold-mining town of 130,000 people, in Ituri province, in eastern Congo.
Officers denied that an illegal, large-scale gold operation was underway within earshot of their posts. But we had seen it with our own eyes.