In a staggering display of cruelty, South African police laid siege to an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, leaving at least 78 workers dead by mid-January. Informal miners are the shadow of an ...

Mali and Barrick Gold Corp.’s negotiations to end a protracted dispute over payments from the country’s biggest gold mine have been suspended, according to people familiar with the government’s ...

With the Liberian government's imminent plan to evict illegal miners from Sapo National Park, a frantic rush has gripped the park as miners scramble to extract as much gold as possible before their ...

Residents in a sparsely populated area of Iron County are speaking out against a contractor that's asking Iron County to allow them to build a mine in the area.