Subsistence miners lose out as coronavirus crushes local gold prices

Why Ghana's gold miners are giving up

Rescue workers in South Africa trying to free 17 miners trapped underground following a fire at a gold mine west of Johannesburg.

The bodies of five illegal miners are found near a disused gold mine in South Africa west of Johannesburg, emergency workers say.

Two miners in South Africa die in accidents at Harmony Gold mines, as the search continues for another miner missing after an earlier deadly fire.

Five gold miners are rescued in western Tanzania after being trapped underground for 41 days, surviving on roots and soil, police say.

A drop in coal prices in countries like South Africa is threatening the existence of seven local miners as factories that make use of the fossil fuel prefer importing the products to sourcing them locally.

>When Tanzanians welcomed the New Year in 2014, a barrel of oil was trading at $100, which was equivalent to Sh165,000,  according to the then prevailing exchange rate, or Sh174,000 at the current dollar rate.

Trends in the oil industry suggest a structural weakness in the national economy.

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