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Efforts to regulate the lucrative mining venture are not proving successful due to collusion and corruption.
Gold is one of 12 confirmed elements on the periodic table whose discoverer is unknown.
Studies show a weak relationship between tip amounts and quality of service. But the color gold seems to have a way of making diners feel wealthier – and more generous.
In just a few years, Burkina Faso has become the fourth largest gold exporter in Africa. But with 43% of the population still below the poverty line, what are the local benefits?
Increases in gold prices on world commodities markets are linked to fewer surviving girls in India. This is related to gold often being part of bridal dowries.
Bitcoin’s rise and fall to date already makes it one of the greatest market bubbles in history. In turbulent times, some have suggested it as a substitute for gold, but it lacks some vital attributes.
Gold can be used to make jewelry, but also to fight cancer. Several clinical trials are currently underway in the United States where patients are being treated with gold nanoparticles.
The fate of Bitcoin’s fate is highly unpredictable and dependent on what governments will do in the future.
The discovery of gold in California 170 years ago was a turning point in global history. The gold rushes are not mere historic footnotes – they continue to influence the world in which we live today.
Hailie Selassie thought his country’s gold could rival the biggest deposits in the world. He may be proven right.
Why some corporations are quick to respond to criticism, and others hide away.
The precious metal is literally extra-terrestrial, produced in the heart of the stars. How and under what conditions? Scientists know more thanks to a double astrophysical observation.
West Africa has lessons to learn from its ancient empires and colonial governments on regional trade and integration.
You may have imagined the blockchain would lead to a world without governments or institutions veryifying transactions, research shows that it probably won’t.
Until the recent observation of merging neutron stars, how the heaviest elements come to be was a mystery. But their fingerprints are all over this cosmic collision.
A gold rush brings in lots of money in the short-term, but leaves a toxic legacy.
Modern chefs are serving up ice cream, cakes, even sushi covered in gold. But gold in food came into its own in late medieval Europe, when eating gold wad thought to be virtuous, and one could find gilded whole roast peacocks.
Industrial gold mining companies in eastern Congo have faced violent attacks over friction between industrial and artisanal mining.
The cryptocurrency is now starting to challenge gold as the investment of choice.
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