Citizen participation in Ghana’s gold mining sector: A ray of hope for 'galamseyers'?

Mining registration in Ghana is expensive, cumbersome, encouraging illegal mining

Profits vs pitfalls

Swapping solution

BRAZIL

Gold digger microbes

GUYANA

INDONESIA

Venezuela

Decaying laboratory

SOUTH AFRICA

Less of a lustre

GUYANA

Golden moments

PERU

BROKEN DISPUTE

Pallor over El Dorado

Severe mercury contamination induced by gold hunters threatens Venezuela's eco-system

MONEYMAKERS

GHANA

WRONGLY PUNISHED

Gold rush

World's biggest gold valley was flooded by the metal three billion years ago

Indian massacre

Gold diggers

Mining company plans to move three glaciers in Chile

All for gold

World Bank flouts its own rules on funding extractive projects

SOUTH AFRICA

Scrounging metal

A new technique helps recover metals from water. It could be toxic metals, or even gold