World s biggest gold valley was flooded by the metal three billion years ago

 Peru

Residents of the Cajamarca province of Peru recently blocked a major highway to protest against water supplies contamination by toxic mercury from Latin America's largest gold mine, Yanacocha. The

A new technique helps recover metals from water. It could be toxic metals, or even gold

Volcanic eruptions normally release molten lava, water vapour and hot gases. But the Galeras volcano in Colombia is one with a difference. It spits out gold dissolved in its dense mix of gases; this

Germany s persistence in not agreeing with the idea of selling IMF gold reserves provided a convenient excuse for the G 7 to ignore the debt relief issue

Beyond all that glittering in the congested streets of Calcutta's sex districts, is defiled environment and morbid health conditions

Public opinion and NGO action are the Yanornarni's only saviours

Just as Brazil and Nigeria lie Geographically parallel to each other along the Atlantic, the fates of their seem sealed in a similar fashion. The Yanornami of Brazil and the

Brazil develops a cheap device to increase gold yield and control mercury pollution in the devastated Amazon basin

The Romanian parliament is deliberating an anti-cyanide bill, which, if passed, will block a project to build Europe's biggest open cast gold mine. According to its sponsor, Senator Peter

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