Buried in red stripes of minerals illuminated by his headlamp is mercury. A boom in mercury mining is underway in Mexico's ...

SAN JOAQUIN, Mexico -- A drill echoes through narrow tunnels deep within the mountain where miner Hugo Flores bores into rock ...

The soaring price of gold is fueling a "mercury boom" in central Mexico. A surge in the demand for the toxic metal, which is ...

Soaring international gold prices are driving up the price of mercury, a toxic metal key in illegal gold mining, to all-time ...

Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call ...