Citizen participation in Ghana’s gold mining sector: A ray of hope for 'galamseyers'?

Mining registration in Ghana is expensive, cumbersome, encouraging illegal mining

Profits vs pitfalls

India has 500 million tonnes of gold ore reserves: Govt

Bihar has the largest reserves of gold ores, followed by Rajasthan and Karnataka  

Swapping solution

BRAZIL

Gold digger microbes

GUYANA

INDONESIA

Venezuela

Decaying laboratory

SOUTH AFRICA

Less of a lustre

GUYANA

Golden moments

PERU

Gold mining is one of the world’s most destructive and unnecessary industries — here’s how to end it

Around 7% of the gold purchased globally each year is used for industry, technology or medicine

The gold rush

Tanzania is regulating its gold mining sector. Small-scale artisanal mining is also being legalised in this poor country

BROKEN DISPUTE

Pallor over El Dorado

Severe mercury contamination induced by gold hunters threatens Venezuela's eco-system

MONEYMAKERS

GHANA

WRONGLY PUNISHED

Gold rush

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

Checking gold fever

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

Leaving the poor aside

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 …