According to an official notification issued by the Home Department, gold mining and extraction activities along the banks of ...

SEOUL, April 28 (UPI) --Hyundai announced it would take steps to prevent its heavy machinery from being used for illegal mining in the Amazon, the company announced Friday, in the wake of a report by ...

Following years of escalating violence by illicit mining operations in the Amazon, Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Safety has sent federal police, a joint military-civilian unit, environmental ...

The U.S. Government last week was engaged in an undercover struggle with the British Empire to correct the wildest paradox of the war: gold, which nobody really needs, is still being mined at peak ...

The true stars of the precious metal’s price surge are the cast of a new TV program that depicts prospectors plucking nuggets ...

The countless reserves of the precious metal, along with record gold prices, have brought a boom in this activity, which has been a magnet for criminal networks that have lined their pockets with ...

Bolivia is in the midst of a gold rush caused by record gold prices and growing international demand. This gold rush has been facilitated by permissive mining regulations that blur the line between ...

In the northern regions of the department of La Paz, Bolivia, illegal gold mining has led to widespread deforestation and mercury pollution. The Bolivian Amazon, including protected areas like Madidi ...

A pastor has become one of the movers and shakers in Malawi’s unregulated gold mining, which has cost a dozen lives in the ...