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SAO PAULO (AP) — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury ...

Officers denied that an illegal, large-scale gold operation was underway within earshot of their posts. But we had seen it with our own eyes. Officers denied that an illegal, large-scale gold ...

Private investment holding company Boroo could be preparing to buy the former Eagle Mine site in Canada’s Yukon Territory, almost two years after a landslide forced its closure. The firm has entered ...

The United States is increasingly being drawn into the opaque supply chains of illicit mining after an investigation by The New York Times tied some of its gold supply to Colombian criminal networks.

This gold comes from a Colombian drug cartel mine. It should never end up at the U.S. Mint. But it does. The mine poisons the workers. The gold underwrites terrorism and cocaine trafficking. But how ...

One morning this past January, I set out in a rental car on the road to El Dorado—not the mythical city deep in the Amazon whose legendary riches lured legions of men to gruesome ends but the county ...

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From past to present: Gold prospecting methods have evolved from manual panning to advanced geoscience tools, blending tradition with technology for better results. Why it matters: Modern techniques ...

Gold's recent price movements have been influenced less by its traditional drivers and more by the shifting headlines around the Iran conflict. In the near term, escalation has lifted oil, pushing ...