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

It’s a toxic combination that is enriching criminal gangs and corrupt officials across the region, as the price of gold ...

Munduruku people in Brazil are battling miscarriages and loss of sight and sound, a community leader tells Sky News.

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

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 ...

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

Those of us who live, work, and play in Summit County know that our rivers are more than just a resource — they are the ...

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

Indigenous women of childbearing age from Nicaragua’s Waspam municipality have been exposed to toxic levels of mercury, ...

Ghana Water Limited has been forced to turn to a mining pit at Anglogold Company to supply its Bonsa Water Treatment Plant, ...

In gold panning sites, extracting gold is about digging than filling pits. The pits left by gold diggers from within and abroad scar waterways, farmlands and forests. “I need money to feed my family, ...

It’s a balmy day in Jamestown, in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, and the second-generation miner is ...