From jewelry to advanced electronics, gold's value is undeniable. Its unique properties and widespread use make it an ...

With rising gold prices and solid demand boding well for the Zacks Mining - Gold industry, investors may scoop up stocks like NEM, AEM, KGC, RGLD and CGAU.

After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early discoveries ...

Paramount Gold announced Tuesday that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has deemed the company’s operations plan for the proposed Grassy Mountain mine complete. That means Paramount can soon begin ...

A global treaty called the Minamata Convention requires gold-mining countries to regularly report the amount of toxic mercury that miners are using to find and extract gold, designed to help nations ...

A major Canadian mining prospect upstream from Southeast Alaska is drawing legal challenges from both sides of the border, as tribal groups fear the project could pollute their ancestral waterways.

The state government has granted mining permission across 1,477 acres, enabling Geo Mysore to establish what could become one ...