Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LEADVILLE — Millions of tons of waste from decades-old mining operations sit in the hills east of town. The brown and orange piles of abandoned ore rise 30 ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A company wants to use cyanide as part of gold mining in the Boise River watershed, the second application in 2004 for a mining permit to extract gold from land above the capital.

It said it had fielded "multiple inquiries" regarding whether cyanide in gold mining was banned within the European Union, which includes French Guiana. Montagne d'Or has a 2.75 million ounce gold ...

The public has until Feb. 6 to comment on the proposed Grassy Mountain Gold and Silver Mine near Vale in Malheur County Oregonians have roughly two months to weigh in on a Nevada company’s plans to ...

Gold miners are facing mounting pressure to improve recoveries and reduce processing risk, yet many still rely on methods ...

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Although wildcat miners might be expelled from Indigenous territories and areas with high levels of protection, unallocated public lands and waterways will remain exposed to their harmful practices, ...

Gold mining has long relied on a single, highly toxic molecule: cyanide. Today, tightening regulations, rising ESG scrutiny, and increasingly complex ore bodies are challenging this long-standing ...

The Egyptian government has announced the establishment of the first sodium cyanide production plant in the Middle East in Alexandria Governorate on the Mediterranean coast, with an annual production ...