Investors and dreamers like to picture asteroids as glittering vaults of gold and platinum, a $700 quintillion jackpot waiting to be claimed. The real prize is more prosaic and far more strategic: the ...

Gold has long been regarded as one of the most chemically inert elements, a stable constant in both scientific ...

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 ...

The largely hidden gold rush in Badakhshan poses considerable risks to Afghans, and others living downstream in Central Asia.

Geopolitical tensions have helped push gold higher. Fortuna Mining has gotten out of Burkina Faso, but is exploring in other areas. The Diamba Sud mine in Senegal contains an estimated 724,000 ounces ...

The Interior Ministry of the Taliban government confirmed on January 7 that ongoing clashes between officials of a contracting gold-mining company and residents of Chah Ab district in Takhar province ...

Zijin Gold is the overseas gold-mining arm of China's Zijin Mining that operates all of the group's gold mines outside China. The company had raised nearly 25 billion Hong Kong dollars (about $3.2 ...