Venezuela is believed to have deposits of several minerals classified as critical by the U.S. Geological Survey, including ...

Venezuela shows how optionality in tantalum and niobium—not scale—could reduce US exposure to highly concentrated, ...

The Trump administration wants to encourage private equity to invest in critical mineral projects in Venezuela with offtakes ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is rich in natural resources – its untapped deposits of minerals are estimated to be worth US trillion. Gold, diamonds, cobalt and zinc are among them. Another ...

Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan quarry in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) RUBAYA, Congo (AP) — Nestled in the green hills of Masisi ...

W A S H I N G T O N -- You may not have heard of coltan, but you have it in your cell phone, laptops, pagers and other electronic devices. It is important to everyday communication in the United ...

Despite vast gold and mineral reserves, years of mismanagement have kept Venezuela’s resource wealth largely untapped ...

Offshore diamond prospecting threatens a fishing community in South Africa, while un-checked mining for the precious stones on land is silting up rivers in Zimbabwe. In Nigeria, serial polluter Shell ...

From the consequences of Donald Trump’s return to the White House to the war raging in Sudan, The Africa Report offers a selection of this year’s data journalism to lay out, in infographics, the major ...

The US attack on Venezuela isn't just about the war on drugs. Behind Maduro's capture are oil, coltan, and the return of the ...

RUBAYA, Congo — Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, as hundreds of men labor by hand to extract coltan, a key ...

RUBAYA, Congo (AP) — Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, the artisanal Rubaya mining site hums with the sound of generators, as hundreds of men labor by hand to extract coltan, a ...