A petition to the Police Criminal Investigations Department has drawn some prominent persons in a $17 million gold deal that has allegedly gone bad.

The FBI says "gold courier" scams have cost Americans an estimated $262 million in the span of months. Here’s how the scheme ...

As gold prices spike across the globe, illegal mining is exploding—and driving the west African country toward ecological collapse. An unhappy prospect: A group of men engaged in illegal gold mining ...

A miner searches for gold at a mine outside Kumasi. Editor at Large Drive an hour south of Kumasi, Ghana’s bustling second city, and before long the dense jungle gives way to denuded hills peppered ...