A team of scientists from Flinders University have developed a method to extract gold from ore and e-waste using ...

Peru's government has kicked 50,565 informal miners off a temporary program that allowed them to continue operations, the minister of energy and mines said on Friday. Only 31,560 miners will remain in ...

Dr Steve Manteaw, Co-chair of the Ghana Extractive Industries and Transparency Initiative (GHEITI), has encouraged small-scale miners to operate ...

The Commander of the Mining Marshals, Assistant Commandant of Corps (ACC) John Onoja Attah, has reaffirmed the unit’s ...

Tucked away in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains sits Mammoth Lakes, a slice of alpine paradise that feels worlds away from ...

Four decades after Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado shot a human anthill of mud-spattered miners digging for gold in the middle of the Amazon, some of the "garimpeiros," now into their 70s, ...