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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A company that wants to extract gold from piles of decades-old mining waste outside Leadville no longer plans to use cyanide in its processes after hearing ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LEADVILLE — Millions of tons of waste from decades-old mining operations sit in the hills east of town. The brown and orange piles of abandoned ore rise 30 ...

The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an environmental catastrophe of ...

The public has until Feb. 6 to comment on the proposed Grassy Mountain Gold and Silver Mine near Vale in Malheur County Oregonians have roughly two months to weigh in on a Nevada company’s plans to ...

An environmental group has voiced concerns over a planned gold mine in Eskişehir, central Turkey due to its possible environmental impact. The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report has been ...

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CJK Milling plans to use flotation method to extract gold from waste rock at Leadville Mill. Permit amendment submitted for approval.

In mining, cyanide spills can cause fish kills and other problems, most recently at a river in Ghana last week downstream from a gold mine. While cyanide in mining is nothing new, using heap leaching ...

For at least 16 million people worldwide, artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a pillar of stability and opportunity, particularly in rural, impoverished communities. But the industry is ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Columbus Gold Corp. (CGT: TSX, CGTFF: OTCQX) (“Columbus”) announces that it is a signatory to the International Cyanide Management Code ...