Getty Image Sometimes the chain of supply and demand has disastrous consequences. As demands for gold and rare earth elements ...

Sources have requested pseudonyms be used to protect their identity out of fear of retaliation from the government or mining ...

The gold rushes of the 19th century have long since ended, but there are still plenty of places you can hunt for the precious metal using a shovel, pan, metal detector, and more. In fact, recreational ...

According to the Washington-based Stimson Center, the past decade has seem a spike in unregulated mining activity in Myanmar, ...

A Dartmouth study finds that artisanal-scale gold mining is altering water clarity and dynamics in the Madre de Dios River watershed in Peru, a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Higher levels of ...

For most of her life, 59-year-old farmer Tip Kamlue has irrigated her fields in northern Thailand with the waters of the Kok ...

A new study reveals that 59,000 kilometers, or nearly 37,000 miles, of tropical rivers have been damaged by mining, based on 7 million measurements taken from satellite images spanning four decades.

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio – If you’re short on funds or looking for something fun to do, consider trying your hand at panning for gold. Cuyahoga Falls will host a gold panning expo in the Cuyahoga River on ...

WEST POINT – A person who was out gold panning in California's historic Gold Country was rescued after he went missing along the cold and fast-flowing Mokelumne River. The Calaveras County Sheriff's ...

The authorities in Mali have launched a large-scale operation in late November against dredges used for gold mining on the Niger River. On 26 November 2025, twenty-three dredges were destroyed in ...

Ezra, my 11-year-old son, and I clung to a thin rope as we scrambled down a steep, rocky hillside into a narrow river canyon. Using the rope, shovels and our muddy boots to slow our descent through ...

CUDDEBACKVILLE – Want to go panning for gold? If so, you have to go no further than Orange County to be a prospector. The Tri-State chapter of the Gold Prospectors Association of America recently ...