A study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has, for the first time, quantified the profitability of gold ...

Thousands of so-called 'garimpeiros' are flocking to the gold-rich region along the Revue River and its tributaries in western Mozambique. These llegal gold miners hail not only from across Mozambique ...

Kuskokwim River, in southwest Alaska. The Donlin mine's massive industrial operation will destroy thousands of acres of wetlands and streams and cause permanently elevated levels of dangerous metals ...

California may be synonymous with the Gold Rush, but the discovery of gold in Colorado in the late 1850s caused a frenzy of its own. In the peak year of the Colorado rush, 1859, more than 100,000 ...