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 ...

Lei Pan, captivated by flotation as a student, went on to develop a novel use of the separation technology that he shares with students in his lab and pilots with regional mines. × Michigan Tech ...

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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 ...

New technologies, international partnerships and luxury buyers are driving a global shift toward sustainable, mercury-free gold. Courtesy Pure Earth Gold has captivated humanity for millennia, ...

The project will create a new mining hub in an underexplored mining region, which Ramelius plans to take advantage of with its proven hub-and-spoke model. The mining operations will use openpit and ...

King Ferdinand of Spain, sponsor of Christopher Columbus, had only one command for the conquistadors: “Get Gold! Humanely, if possible, but at all hazards!” 500 years later this sentiment still seems ...

The WisdomTree Efficient Gold Plus Gold Miners Strategy Fund offers combined exposure to gold and gold miners in a single ETF. GDMN employs a capital-efficient, leveraged structure by stacking gold ...

JABAL SUKARI, EGYPT—La Brújula Verde reports that the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities completed a two-year excavation and preservation project of an ancient mining camp at Jabal Sukari ...

Sam Kalen served as Special Assistant to the Associate Solicitor for Minerals and Resources at the US Department of the Interior from 1994-1996. Views expressed in this article are solely those of the ...