It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths of ...

California, founded on a lust for gold, has a new yellow metal rush in the Mojave desert. In the Mojave town of Johannesburg, 140 miles north of Los Angeles, a stampede for gold has sparked a real ...

Contrary to what most people assume, the gold rush didn’t end in the 1800s. Across the U.S., people still pull real gold from rivers, streams, and old mining sites simply with a shovel and a gold pan.

Coeur Mining is a maturing mid-size North American silver and gold miner, now showing improved financial stability and operational discipline. CDE's share price is highly sensitive to silver prices, ...

A miner searches for gold at a mine outside Kumasi. Editor at Large Drive an hour south of Kumasi, Ghana’s bustling second city, and before long the dense jungle gives way to denuded hills peppered ...

With gold prices at an all-time high, illegal gold mining is again rising— a recurring pattern between gold prices and illegal gold mining. Earlier this month, several top-tier news reports covered ...