An increase of just 0.03% in illegal gold mining is associated with a 20 to 46% increase in the local incidence of malaria in Yanomami lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

Gold was discovered in the Fairbanks area in 1902 when Italian immigrant Felix Pedro struck it rich. He put Fairbanks on the map and thousands of men rushed to interior Alaska in search of the precious yellow metal. They were driven by gold fever and the ...

This is a battle between a gold giant generating record cash flows and a smaller miner about to sell its most problematic mine and get $1.5 billion.

Miners in northern Sudan search for gold using metal detectors and digging tools. These unregulated miners work in small-scale private mines, lacking basic safety systems.

Calibre Mining Corp. (TSX: CXB, OTCQX: CXBMF) has entered into a definitive agreement to merge with Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX: EQX, NYSE American: EQX) in a transformational $2.6 billion transaction. The merger will create New Equinox Gold, a diversified ...

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Good luck and good panning'—from Mark Hall, a veteran Ontario geologist who has staked or inspected roughly 1,000 mining claims. Days later, Back Roads Bill was following him into the bush outside Sud