In 2008, miners sifting through the sands of Namibia’s Sperrgebiet — a restricted diamond mining zone near the Skeleton Coast ...

At least 100 people are feared dead following the collapse of a gold mining pit in Nigeria's Zamfara State, survivors and ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

A metal detectorist discovered a Byzantine era hoard of gold coins and jewelry near the Sea of Galilee. Archaeologists near ...

Democratic Republic of Congo says it loses 60 tons of gold a year to smuggling. The new mines minister wants the country to ...

Africa bleeds. More than 30 years after the Cold War supposedly ended, Africa is back on the front line of a renewed scramble ...

Twenty-three workers have been rescued after spending 43 hours trapped in a collapsed underground gold mine in northern Colombia.

Government and company officials in Colombia say that a collapse at the gold mine in the north of the country has trapped ...

Kempe and Weiss’s research marks a breakthrough, the first natural evidence of nickel-rich alloys at the depths long ...

A boom in artisanal gold mining in Ghana has driven mercury contamination to dangerous levels in host communities, with soil ...

We’ve found coins, relics, and scrap before but never this. Buried inside ordinary-looking rocks was something extraordinary: gold. The detectors led us here, and the cracks in the stone exposed ...

ASX-listed oil and gas explorer-turned gold hunter Enegex is getting a "glow-up" through a deal to acquire a sizeable ...