In small-scale and artisanal mining, mercury is used extensively to extract gold. In this practice, the gold reacts with ...

Initially thought to be dead, two small-scale miners were pulled out alive from a collapsed tunnel at the mountainous village ...

A “supergiant” gold ore deposit under an existing gold mine in China could be the world’s largest gold ore deposit. Officials ...

A baby deer was rescued by firefighters after it fell into an abandoned gold mine shaft in Cabarrus County this week. The ...

There are many natural resources in Alaska. Gold mining is an important industry.

Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing ...

JERSEY-DOMICILED miner, Caledonia Mining Corporation, has found encouraging high-grade results from its ongoing resource ...

Policymakers’ hopes that Africa would replace India and the Philippines as the world’s back office have not been realised.

Latin American cartels once were masters of the drug trade, but spikes in prices led them into controlling a new venture.

The United States Bureau of Land Management approved a new gold mine project near Wickenburg. The project raised environmental concerns regarding water usage, potential groundwater contamination and ...

Gold extraction has relied on highly toxic chemicals such as cyanide and mercury, which are infamous for causing severe environmental damage.