The Grasberg mine in Indonesia is the world's largest and richest gold mine, producing 48 tonnes of gold a year, and has ...
The Granite Creek project is proximal to the Twin Creeks and Turquoise Ridge mining operations run by Nevada Gold Mines.
Using satellite images and hundreds of leaf samples, they traced the toxic dust up to 30 kilometers away from the mines.
Deep in the Mojave National Preserve lies an old open pit mine where workers dug and drilled for gold and silver from the ...
More than 40 people, mostly women, were killed after an illegal gold mine collapsed in Mali on Saturday. The collapse took place near Kéniéba, in Mali's western, gold-rich Kayes region.
The women had climbed down into open-pit areas left by industrial miners to look for scraps of gold when the earth collapsed around them, he said. A mines ministry representative confirmed the ...