Across West Africa, mercury — a potent neurotoxin — remains the dominant method for extracting gold from ore in the region’s booming informal mining sector, much of it illegal and unregulated. In ...

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Holding small bags and young children, a dozen people wait in a wooden ... refugees in Kurmuk has pushed many Sudanese refugees into mining gold in the economically poor but gold-rich region.

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A major gold and copper supplier for the world, Peru is unique in allowing informal miners to operate with some protections as long as they plan to legalize their operations. But illegal mining ...

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Citing an emergency order to build the United States’ energy dominance over foreign adversaries, the Trump administration has resuscitated a long-dead fight to mine in what’s now the Mojave ...