From jewelry to advanced electronics, gold's value is undeniable. Its unique properties and widespread use make it an ...

A major Canadian mining prospect upstream from Southeast Alaska is drawing legal challenges from both sides of the border, as tribal groups fear the project could pollute their ancestral waterways.

After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early discoveries ...

A global treaty called the Minamata Convention requires gold-mining countries to regularly report the amount of toxic mercury that miners are using to find and extract gold, designed to help nations ...

Gold mining has begun at Jonnagiri in Tuggali mandal of Kurnool district, raising hopes of economic benefits to the region’s ...

In the Philippines, as in many places across the globe, mercury has long been central to how small-scale gold miners earn their living. Used as an easy way to separate gold from other minerals they ...

K92 Mining Inc.'s gold equivalent production consists of gold, copper and silver produced at the Kainantu Gold Mine in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, 180 km northwest of Lae.

A few years ago, a mining company was considering reopening an old mine shaft in Welkom, a city in South Africa’s interior. Welkom was once the center of the world’s richest goldfields. There were ...