A new “cold rush” is mining northern mineral riches. Canada’s Giant Mine serves as a warning of the high and long-term cost of such expeditions.

Giant Mine, near the subarctic city of Yellowknife, was once one of the biggest gold mines in the Northwest Territories, said ...

A fascinating documentary takes viewers on a tour of the largest abandoned ... Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company for 'mining and producing copper, silver, and gold.' ...

In 2002, Canada’s government projected the remediation to cost around C$200 million; in 2022, it revised the figure to C$5 billion. Giant Mine, a similarly abandoned gold mine in the neighboring ...

As It Happens7:33Why police are in a standoff with people working an abandoned South African mine For weeks, police have been stationed at the opening of an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...

Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images There are about 500,000 abandoned ... off the mines — but that is a tall order, simply because there are so many. In the gold rush state ...

an unwanted byproduct from what was once one of the largest gold mines in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Consider that it only takes 140 milligrams of arsenic trioxide to kill a person ...