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Searching for gold in America with a metal detector is a favorite pastime for thousands who dream of striking it rich.

Documents obtained by the Associated Press outlined 46-year-old Patrick Weier’s death. According to the documents Weier died ...

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Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over two months during a standoff ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...

The incident occurred at an open-pit gold mine near the village of Danga in the Kangaba Cercle in Mali’s southwestern Koulikoro region, UCROM Secretary General Taoule Camara said via telephone.

The rebels, which Rwanda denies supporting, have long been funded at least in part by the illicit mineral trade.