If you liked this story, share it with other people. The mercury used to amalgamate gold is cheap, effective and toxic. Studies from artisanal and small-scale mining sites across the Amazon reveal ...

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining employs more than 15 million people globally and generates a fifth of global gold supplies. It supports 100 million people indirectly, more than any other ...

In a recent study published in the journal Biogeosciences, scientists have confirmed that mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is contaminating food crops not through ...

July 3 (UPI) --The government of President Dina Boluarte has extended Peru's small-scale mining formalization program through December, even as doubts persist more than a decade after its launch and ...

Samples show arsenic and mercury levels above global guidelines President Mahama is trying to regulate artisanal mining Protesters have demanded more action to clean up sector DAKAR, Sept 22 (Reuters) ...

As record-high gold prices deliver windfall for Australia's mining sector, small investors and prospectors are also hitting pay dirt.

"There's gold in those hills", said a prospector long, long ago. That well-worn phrase was first uttered thousands of miles ...

The surge in gold prices has turned Durban Deep, a decaying former mining suburb west of Johannesburg, into a chaotic ...

VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Sandstorm Gold Ltd. ("Sandstorm Gold Royalties", "Sandstorm" or the "Company") (NYSE: SAND) (TSX: SSL) today acknowledges and supports Royal Gold Inc.'s ...