KEDOUGOU – The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says, is with a drop of mercury. She empties a dime-sized packet of the silvery liquid into a plastic bucket of muddy sediment ...

Over the past week, a kraal in the Gugulethu informal settlement, in Ekurhuleni, has been at the heart of a mini gold rush, following rumours of gold particles found in the ground.

Six more bodies have been recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where scores of people have reportedly died underground since authorities tried to force them out and seal the mine in ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: This unlicensed gold mine in Ghana is a booming business. It's one of many in the country generating livelihoods and ...

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 ...

Kabul (Pajhwok): Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum says that more than 100,000 people have been employed directly ...

SAN JOAQUIN, Mexico (AP) — A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth’s most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes ...

In San Bernardino County, gold and silver mining companies are pushing to expand.

With gold prices at an all-time high, illegal gold mining is again rising— a recurring pattern between gold prices and illegal gold mining. Earlier this month, several top-tier news reports covered ...