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Gold mining damages dung beetle communities in the Amazon, study finds

By David Brown Small-scale gold mining is a major cause of deforestation in the Amazon, and researchers found that in Guyana ...

Illegal miners extract billions in Amazon gold despite Brazil crackdown, Greenpeace finds

By Adriano Machado, Lais Morais and Ricardo Brito ITAITUBA, Brazil, May 29 (Reuters) - Billions of dollars worth of gold is ...

U.S. Was Asked to Blacklist Colombian Cartel Gold. It Was Also Buying It.

The request for sanctions, from Colombia’s defense minister, shows failures at both ends of the supply chain for illegal gold ...
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Hidden for 1,700 years, this massive Roman gold mining network beneath the Spanish Pyrenees has finally been confirmed

For decades, archaeologists suspected that the unusual landscape of a remote valley in the Spanish Pyrenees was the result of ...

In Sudan’s war economy, gold keeps flowing as miners risk mercury and collapse

Miners in northern Sudan search for gold using metal detectors and digging tools. These unregulated miners work in ...
Wired

'Green' gold extraction method replaces cyanide with starch

Extracting gold from ore is a poisonous business. The most common method is cyanide leaching, where cyanide salts in solution are used to suck the gold out from its ore. You get gold, but you also get ...
Nanowerk

Extracting gold from waste with graphene (w/video)

(Nanowerk News) Throughout history, alchemists believed in the existence of the philosopher’s stone: a substance that could turn cheap substances into precious gold. Now scientists from The University ...