Here are some takeaways from AP’s report on the issue: ...

Mining often happens in artisanal and small-scale mining operations that burn gold-mercury amalgams to extract gold particles. Credit: Simon Topp. For hundreds of years, the Amazon has been exploited ...

To commemorate the golden anniversary of Fittipaldi’s initial winning season, the Amalgam Collection, which manufactures detailed miniatures of the world’s most revered cars, is venturing down a ...

Unlike alluvial gold, which is found as very small flakes on riverbanks, gold-bearing rocks have to be dug out of the ground. We're after pure gold, but rock that contains gold also includes lots of ...

Measuring 4.5 feet by 3 feet, the silkscreen prints are based off of large-format studio photos of Fittipaldi's original race car, shot by Thornton. The stark white background makes the gold leaf pop.

RELAVE, Peru (Reuters) - Tucked between two desert ridges in southern Peru, Relave looks like any of the hundreds of ramshackle mining towns that blight the landscape in the world's sixth-largest gold ...