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The new water-based process being used by some independent Mongolian miners can extract up to 80% of the gold from the ore and is much cleaner than processes using mercury or cyanide.

These Mongolian miners are making gold greener. Now they want their government to help.

Environment

Gold mining is a key source of income in Mongolia, but it can often be a dirty business. An effort by small, independent miners to switch to a non-toxic processing method is improving the outlook for their health and the local environment.

Gold bars

A German artist creates a gold rush on an English beach

Arts

Colombian miners looking to more environmentally friendly gold mining process

Environment

Should I buy gold?

Business, Economics and Jobs

Gold Mining Boom

The World

Colombia Sets Sight on ‘Green Gold’

Colombia is a hotspot of mercury pollution from small-scale gold mining. But it’s also a testing ground for a new movement to reduce mercury pollution by paying small-scale miners more to use less of the toxic metal.

The World

A Golden Future? Inflation Fear Underlies Global Rise in Gold

Arts, Culture & Media

Why gold is so valuable right now? What is the future of money? The World’s Anchor Marco Werman talks with Matthew Bishop of the Economist, co-author of “In Gold We Trust: The Future of Money in an Age of Uncertainty”, to find out more.

Scotland to Open Goldmine in Loch Lomond National Park

Global Politics

As gold prices are soaring, Scotland is set to open a new gold mine inside the Loch Lomond National Park in the highlands.

Massive Lead Poisoning in Nigeria

Business, Economics and Jobs

A gold mining boom driven by high global prices is contaminating local villages with toxic lead dust, leading to a crisis that Human Rights Watch says is the worst lead poisoning epidemic in modern history.

The World

Gold prices plunge to $1600 per ounce

Business, Economics and Jobs

Louise Story, Wall Street and finance reporter for The New York Times, discusses why prices are dropping and whether betting on gold is still a sure thing.