After months of stalemate, South African emergency services have already saved 34 illegal miners from a stalled gold mine ...

On Dec. 26, in the waning days of her tenure, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland delivered a 20-year ban on new mining claims ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

Tales of prospecting for gold may conjure up images of treasure hunters victoriously uncovering massive rocks of the valuable metal. In reality, prospecting was hard, back-breaking work ...

Ah, but — and you should remember this for “Jeopardy!” — the Golden State’s first documented gold strike happened here, in ...

Gold prospecting has long intrigued adventurers and treasure hunters, and Frank from Get the Gold! offers an unconventional yet effective method for extracting gold trapped within black sand.

Animals have suffered greatly as a result of Ghana's illegal mining, or galamsey, with crocodiles and their young being the ...

ASX-listed junior will scale up with the A$166.5 million deal, which is the first mining acquisition in Australia for 2025.

The allure of gold continued to draw prospectors to Southern California, with new mining camps like Prospect Bar and ...

Alaska became a destination for gold prospectors after the mid 1800s, and by the 1890s the gold rush had truly taken hold. Qasa Alom visits Juneau, Alaska, where he searches for gold with a local ...

This compares to the S&P 500 which remains up by about 3% and gold prices which have fallen about 2% over the same period.