Some of the most heavily mined ground in Baker County will soon be off limits to any future searches for gold.

Emily Cureton Cook / OPB Negotiations over how a mining company will monitor itself amid accusations of groundwater pollution in Crook County are expected to come to a head this week. Friday is the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A gold rush brought settlers to South Dakota’s Black Hills roughly 150 years ago, chasing the dream of wealth and displacing Native Americans in the process. Now, a new crop ...

ASM is transitioning to a mid-tier producer via organic growth, driven by the development of the high-grade La Preciosa resource and a proposed Oxide Tailings Project. The company is debt-free, has ...

The soaring price of gold is fueling a "mercury boom" in central Mexico. A surge in the demand for the toxic metal, which is key in illegal gold mining, is benefiting Mexican miners but also exposing ...