Down a shaft that plunged more than a mile below the earth in South Africa’s old mining heartland, a man’s life hung in the ...

El Salvador's Congress has approved a law that would lift the country’s seven-year-old ban on mining for metals.

Miners once thought they had struck it rich when they discovered gold here, but families linked to Christmastown are proud of ...

Researchers suggest that recycling gold could dramatically reduce harmful emissions, along with other solutions such as ...

Johannesburg, South Africa - Hundreds of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, will spend Christmas day underground. The government ...

Southeast Alaskan tribal groups are decrying a proposed mine in northwestern British Columbia, arguing it will have ...

Congo’s mineral-rich central and eastern regions have long grappled with illegal mining operations and the involvement of ...

In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of ...

Comstock Mining consolidated 12 square miles of property with thousands of mineral claims stretching over a six mile area ...

Aura Minerals, OceanaGold, Alphamin Resources, and B2Gold. These companies saw mixed results in a year that had some ...