Fifteen of the world’s top Lego builders have been invited to showcase their unique creations at the annual Masterpiece ...

(We wore out several pairs of gloves in the process.) We used mercury to actually extract the gold from the powdered rock. Gold, like most minerals, can be 'dissolved' in mercury to create what's ...

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The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of illegal gold mining in the Amazon, which destroys the riverbeds ...

Using mercury to extract gold is currently the cheapest method available to small miners here, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat said, and banning it would put most of this country’s ...

Women in gold mining sites in Migori County are exposed to high levels of mercury that could harm them and their unborn babies. A global study found nearly half of Kenyan women involved in ...