Police from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border ...

With dredging weather finally here, it’s time to get back in the creek and start pulling gold again. This video captures the excitement of prospecting season, showcasing dredge setup, creek conditions ...

From above, the Amazon rainforest appears as a dense, emerald-green paradise, but as the plane descends, the damaged landscape becomes visible with its gaping wounds carved by illegal gold mining.

There’s a modern-day gold rush happening across the country as the price for the precious metal skyrockets. As of Monday, Nov. 3, one ounce of gold is worth just over $4,020, according to APMEX.

PITTSBURGH, March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an ergonomic product that allows you to stand upright instead of bent over when prospecting for gold," said an inventor, from Coalmont, ...

Minneapolis — In the classic 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” an old gold prospector opines that the precious metal is valuable because an ounce represents the sweat and ...