In Nariño, guerrilla groups are swapping arms for legal mining as part of the country’s peace accord. But as presidential elections loom, armed rivals and delays threaten to derail progress ...

Precious metals ETFs surged on Wednesday as gold and silver miners posted outsized gains, driven by a weakening dollar, ...

One of the U.S. government’s most important activities to increase domestic critical mineral production is being developed ...

Residents in Cambodia are reporting vanishing fish and illnesses along a waterway they suspect is being contaminated by gold mining. ● The number of residences at high risk of flooding in the United ...

Researchers have developed a new type of material that's 10 times more efficient at extracting gold from e-waste than previous adsorbents. Developed by chemists and materials scientists at the ...

Extracting gold from ore is a poisonous business. The most common method is cyanide leaching, where cyanide salts in solution are used to suck the gold out from its ore. You get gold, but you also get ...

(Nanowerk News) Throughout history, alchemists believed in the existence of the philosopher’s stone: a substance that could turn cheap substances into precious gold. Now scientists from The University ...