Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hugo Flores analyses a rock recently extracted from the mine in San Joaquin, Mexico (Associated Press/Fernando Llano) A drill ...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A global mercury conference in Geneva faced sharp criticism Friday from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to take stronger steps against mercury use in ...
SAN JOAQUIN, Mexico (AP) — A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock in search of one of Earth's most toxic elements. Buried in red stripes ...
The Mozambican government has started gathering international experience to transform informal, small-scale artisanal mining ...
In a recent study published today in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal Biogeosciences, scientists have confirmed that mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is ...
LIMA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The seizure of one of the largest known mercury shipments in history, moving from mines in Mexico to illegal Amazon gold mining zones, exposes the wide use of the ...
A small, leafy, green peanut plant grows out of a patch of dirt. When David McLagan’s team sampled mercury isotopes in cassava, maize, and peanut crops (like the one shown here) grown downwind of a ...
By Leoncio Na-oyThe deaths of seven small-scale miners in Itogon, Benguet, on Sept. 30, 2026, should not become another entry in the long history of mining acci ...
In a recent study published in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal Biogeosciences, scientists have confirmed that mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is ...
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