By Enrique Vera On a small airplane, José Manuyama, a professor, frowns and shakes his head with anguish while thousands of ...

Liviri River in Kasungu District does not begin as a harbinger of death. Its journey starts with clean flow from Kalonje Village, but slowly gets soiled as it snakes past rolling hills and tobacco ...

Mongabay Latam traveled along 38 kilometers (24 miles) of Peru’s Cenepa River, near the border with Ecuador, where illegal mining dredges run around the clock in search of gold, hemming in seven ...

With gold prices at an all-time high, illegal gold mining is again rising— a recurring pattern between gold prices and illegal gold mining. Earlier this month, several top-tier news reports covered ...

One of the century’s largest gold finds is in Ivory Coast's Doropo mine - over 100 tons spark a $500 million mine plan and ...

After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early discoveries ...

In the Philippines, as in many places across the globe, mercury has long been central to how small-scale gold miners earn their living. Used as an easy way to separate gold from other minerals they ...

The Barama-Mazaruni volcanic and rocky area of Panamazonia has the privilege of being an area rich in gold, so the extraction of this mineral has been constant since the early twentieth century. The ...

In the town of Aroroy in Masbate province, mining and biodiversity conservation blend well. The Colorada Point Marine Protected Area (CPMPA), a 129-hectare marine sanctuary in Aroroy, stands as proof ...

Economic pressures drive artisanal mining, impacting corporate operations Rising gold prices fuel conflicts between industrial and informal miners Miners are pressing governments for military support ...