Since the modern gold rushes of the 1970s and 1980s, gold has been one of Australia's major exports. Australia is the second-largest gold producer globally behind China and holds the second largest ...
Freeport, New York — At eWorks in Freeport, New York, piles of dusty televisions, personal computers, printers and other old tech are the start of an electronic treasure hunt. "There is a value that ...
DALLAS (SMU) – A global treaty called the Minamata Convention requires gold-mining countries to regularly report the amount of toxic mercury that miners are using to find and extract gold, designed to ...