Today, it fuels everything from global markets to the tiniest circuits in our smartphones. But just when the world thought we had already tapped into most of what Earth had to offer, a jaw-dropping ...

Gold prices edged lower after hitting a three-week high on Monday, with attention focused on trade talks and U.S. economic data, while silver climbed to its highest level since September 2011.

A massive gold deposit buried deep in China's Hunan province is reshaping the future of global mining. Tucked beneath the Wangu gold field in Pingjiang County, the site may hold as much as 1,100 ...

To answer these questions, it is easiest to start with the amount of gold that humans have mined to date. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that throughout history, humans have extracted ...

The deposit could contain up to 150 tons of gold, which would make it one of the largest discoveries in France.

Deposit in Hunan province has an estimated 490 million tonnes of lithium ore and 1.31 million tonnes of lithium oxide, report ...

A wave of Chinese gold miners is pushing to raise funds in Hong Kong, seeking to capitalize on rising investor interest in ...

China has made significant strides in mineral resources exploration in the first half of this year, with discoveries of 38 ...

Gold jewelry consumption in China tanked nearly 27% in the first quarter of 2025 from a year ago, according to the China Gold Association.

Chinese investors have poured their savings into gold, attracted by promises of rising prices. One company’s sudden closure is a cautionary tale.

The Turkish central bank estimates that Turkish households have more $311 billion worth of unregistered gold, most of it outside of the official financial system.

Massive volumes of gold are being moved from Western countries, to vaults outside the Swift system and Western regulation. Even for the world’s top gold mining countries, such as China and Kazakhstan, ...