Canada’s Bear Creek prepares IPO in Peru to finance silver mine

Bolivia has passed this month the world's first ruling that grants all nature equal rights to humans. The “Law of Mother Earth,” agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups, redefines the South American nation's mineral deposits as "blessings" and is supposed to lead to radical new conservation and social measures to reduce pollution and control industry.

Scientists from France's Ecole Polytechnique have developed a remarkable new technology which extracts trace amounts of gold from industrial waste water.

Electronic markets will stay open

Over the past seven years, there have been only nine major discoveries of gold.

Eric Friedland has been buying Peregrine Diamonds as the stock sinks lower

A series of small steps leading to a big problem

"Gold stored in your home safe is not immediately available as collateral in case you need foreign currency."

Unrest in South Africa has cost the country R3.1bn (US$350 million).

With only about 21 months remaining until publicly-traded U.S. component manufacturers are forced by law to disclose their usage of conflict minerals to the federal government, the industry appears to be unprepared, says information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).