Since the modern gold rushes of the 1970s and 1980s, gold has been one of Australia's major exports. Australia is the second-largest gold producer globally behind China and holds the second largest ...

Scientists have successfully used a gold purifying process from medieval West Africa. Humble fragments of clay crucibles and coin molds flecked with gold that a team of British and Malian ...

An Utah based company has created a molecularly imprinted polymer ion exchange resin to replace activated carbon that has been reported to have the potential to increase the profits of gold mining ...

Humble fragments of clay crucibles and coin molds flecked with gold excavated by a joint team of British and Malian archaeologists in 2005 led archaeologist Sam Nixon, in consultation with Thilo ...

In the Philippines, as in many places across the globe, mercury has long been central to how small-scale gold miners earn their living. Used as an easy way to separate gold from other minerals they ...

AngloGold Ashanti (AU) said Tuesday it has resumed operations at its second plant at the Queiroz industrial complex in Brazil, allowing the company to process all gold concentrate produced by its ...

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia has built 10 milling plants to process gold in a drive to formalise artisanal and small-scale miners and diversify from copper mining, state mining investment company ZCCM-IH ...

Gold may not literally grow on trees, but a groundbreaking study from Finland suggests that nature may come close. Researchers investigating Norway spruce trees in northern Finland found tiny gold ...

Humble fragments of clay crucibles and coin molds flecked with gold excavated by a joint team of British and Malian archaeologists in 2005 led archaeologist Sam Nixon, in consultation with Thilo ...