Parties to the UN Minamata Convention on Mercury met this week to discuss illegal trade, gold-mining pollution, and other ...
Recreational gold mining is a pastime for many people these days, and for good reason: the largest nugget ever found in ...
Q3 2025 Management View CEO Allen Palmiere stated the company is "seeing the early signs of a turnaround at our operations in Mexico" and cited execution of capital-raising, management changes, and ...
Economic pressures drive artisanal mining, impacting corporate operations Rising gold prices fuel conflicts between industrial and informal miners Miners are pressing governments for military support ...
Authorities seized around P3.6 million worth of mineral ores and equipment in a series of anti-illegal mining operations in ...
TELLER COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) - Scientists believe it was approximately 35 million years ago when a volcanic eruption left deposits of gold just below the surface in Teller County. It wasn’t until the ...
Due to its isolation in far-northern Ecuador, Cofán Bermejo Ecological Reserve, much of which also functions as an Indigenous territory, has been comparatively spared from the oil-driven deforestation ...
In Southern Venezuela, Brazilian gold miners known as garimpeiros exploit Venezuelan Indigenous lands, leaving behind mass environmental destruction. Deforestation, sedimentation and contamination of ...
A new study reveals how ancient Egypt’s gold mining in Nubia fueled a profitable boom that powered the empire’s wealth.