Indonesian miners Rahahman Manggopa, left, and Koban Daha pour quicksilver (mercury) to separate the gold at a rudimentary tromelling mine at Busang 1, site of some of Bre-X’s prior work.

As markets have reeled over uncertainty about U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, gold prices have registered record high after record high. The price of spot gold is up more than 30% since the ...

Four decades after Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado shot a human anthill of mud-spattered miners digging for gold in the middle of the Amazon, some of the "garimpeiros," now into their 70s ...