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

Mines ministry is fine-tuning modalities to auction nine tailing dumps at Karnataka’s Kolar Gold Fields. Worth of minerals in ...

Illegal mining’s impact on women is a key focus of the study. The researcher highlights trafficking of girls forced to work ...

China’s immense demand for raw materials as the world’s top consumer of most key minerals. It has long driven its firms to ...

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 ...

The government of President Dina Boluarte has extended Peru's small-scale mining formalization program through December, even ...

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

An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has ...

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

To answer these questions, it is easiest to start with the amount of gold that humans have mined to date. The U.S. Geological ...

BAYOMBONG, NUEVA VIZCAYA, Philippines — Initially thought to be dead, two small-scale miners were pulled out alive from a collapsed tunnel at the mountainous village of Runruno of Quezon town in ...