The soaring price of gold is fueling a "mercury boom" in central Mexico. A surge in the demand for the toxic metal, which is ...

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

Marathon Fusion, a startup based in California, has put forward a bold idea: using nuclear fusion reactors to make gold from mercury. The concept is based on transmutation, the process of turning one ...

Ever since the discovery of alchemy, or since humans thought gold was a precious object, a worldwide quest to turn common elements into the yellow metal has been ongoing. Folklore and fables sing ...

The Government of Ghana, through the Environmental Protection Authority has stepped up efforts to phase out mercury use in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector under the Global ...

Scientists in Colombia’s Amazon are capturing and testing endangered pink river dolphins to monitor mercury contamination ...