Researchers confirmed that Lion Cavern in Eswatini is the world's oldest ochre mine, dating back 48,000 years. Using ...

The world’s oldest mine has been discovered in southern Africa by bombarding ancient materials with neutrons inside the ...

The analyses of the largest study on ochre extraction in Africa also show the spread of ochre to nearby areas / publication ...

Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine. A new study dates that mine to a full 48,000 years ago. Ochre is a clay-based pigment that was incredibly popular at that time, ...

The collapse of the dam unleashed a torrent of over 40 million cubic meters of highly toxic mining waste sludge, enough to fill 12,000 Olympic swimming pools. The ochre-colored muck from the dam ...

You could compare iron mining in the Iron Age with mining today, when huge machines are used. You could show them the ochre used to create prehistoric drawings and let the children use the ochre ...