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

Cold air can turn gold prospecting into a serious endurance test. This lighthearted but honest look explores how freezing conditions affect prospecting efforts, from stiff tools to numb fingers—and ...

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.

Before Oregon was known for timber, it was known for gold. That’s the underlying message of the new book “Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era.” Its author, ...

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, ...

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining (ASX:KAL) is advancing a focused exploration strategy aimed at uncovering a multimillion-ounce gold ...

Regardless of how the gold price is doing, the top gold-mining companies are always making moves. Right now, gold is in the limelight — stimulated by increasing global inflation, geopolitical turmoil ...

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 ...

Gold’s (XAUUSD:CUR) bull market began at $252.50 per ounce in 1999. The precious metals price surpassed the 1980 high in 2008 and rose above $1,000 per ounce for the first time the same year. COMEX ...