In a new short video, Mongabay visits the Dimonika Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO site in southwestern Republic of Congo. The government shut down a Chinese company’s gold mining operation in November ...
“We need machinery, for them to send us machinery so we can rescue our boys because we have about seven boys over there. And the only thing we have is that machine there, we don’t have enough machines ...
A gold rush brought settlers to South Dakota's Black Hills roughly 150 years ago, chasing the dream of wealth and displacing Native Americans in the process. Now, a new crop of miners driven by gold ...