A scramble for gold reserves dug up in illegal mines is fuelling violence by criminal gangs in parts of Nigeria, officials, ...

The surge in gold prices is driving a rapid expansion in informal and unregulated gold mining that is often illegal and ...

Researchers have developed a new type of material that's 10 times more efficient at extracting gold from e-waste than previous adsorbents. Developed by chemists and materials scientists at the ...

Scientists at Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have developed a new process designed to improve gold recovery and recycle toxic cyanide used in mining. The method, called ‘Sustainable Gold ...

To curtail the exploitation of critical mineral supply chains by criminal actors, lessons can be drawn from the example of ...

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

The government has decided to gradually lift the suspension of mining activity in Manica province for companies not involved in gold extraction and that comply ...

Violence has escalated in the small Brazilian town of Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade as illegal gold mining on the nearby Sararé Indigenous Territory has exploded over the last two years, according ...

Gold mining has been part of the American story for more than two centuries and it remains an important industry today.

A pastor has become one of the movers and shakers in Malawi’s unregulated gold mining, which has cost a dozen lives in the ...