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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTXL) — Over 170 years later, the Gold Rush ...

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 ...