Fergusson has been prospecting as a hobby for about ... Treadwell has carved out a niche for himself in the desert, selling ...

A gold rush has broken out in the Sahara in recent years. Thousands of young Africans are digging in the sea of sand with pickaxes - and risking their lives in search of precious treasure.

Although other wildflower species will bring splashes of purple and pink, the stars of the show will be desert gold at lower elevations and golden evening primrose and desert dandelion at higher ...

In a victory for the Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe and their conservation and environmental justice allies, the Imperial County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday rejected the SMP Gold Corp. Oro Cruz ...

As sunlight hits the Tanami, the desert glows gold. Then, hundreds of workers disappear into the darkness underground. This is life at Newmont's Tanami mine — a remote fly-in fly-out (FIFO ...

In the high desert 25 miles east of Reno, Gooseberry Mine is etched into the dusty Nevada hills. Until 1990, gold was dug out of the ground here. Now it's mostly abandoned. In late March ...

Hundreds of kilometres to the west, in Uzbekistan’s Kyzylkum Desert, sits Muruntau, the world’s largest open-pit gold mine. Now the good times are rolling. The price of gold has more than ...