This theme brings together a group of gold mining sites that began with the small Coromandel rush of 1852, followed by another small rush in 1857 at Aorere in Golden Bay. Then came the big Otago rush ...

Golden Point Historic Reserve protects important remnants of Otago's gold mining history. It also houses unique machinery, still in working order. Access to Callery Battery requires crossing Deep Dell ...

Ghana’s top water utility shut down the treatment plant that serves its biggest mining hub following a surge in illegal gold mining that’s polluted the river that supplies the facility.

Mercury is increasingly being used to extract gold by miners digging on a massive scale ... on panning - the washing of sediment through a sieve so the gold settles at the bottom.

Last month, Mali’s government detained three executives involved in the gold sector from Resolute Mining, an Australian mining company. It demanded the company pay the $160m in taxes it owed ...

which directly adjoins our Central Cadillac-Wood Gold Mines property to the west. The samples were crushed to a particle size of 70% passing through a two-millimeter sieve, and then a 500-gram portion ...