Rob Wile, Business InsiderApril 12, 2013 16:13

A man was trying to board a Lufthansa flight back to Germany when the airline uncovered nearly 1,000 pounds of what the BBC calls silver "tablets" in a cargo container.

Is India fighting a losing battle against gold bugs?

Ansuya Harjani, CNBCJanuary 22, 2013 12:48

Despite tax hike, Indian gold remains deeply desirable.

Societe Generale issues 2013 gold forecast

Joe Weisenthal, Business InsiderJanuary 21, 2013 17:05

Societe Generale issued a note that has investors wondering whether 2013 will be the first year since 2000 that gold ends the year down. If real interest rates in the US begin to normalize, gold will likely get crushed, as Goldman Sachs (and others) have pointed out lately.

Gold prices fall amid market fears

Sharon Epperson, CNBCDecember 19, 2012 14:25

Gold is now on pace for its third monthly decline, down almost 6 percent in that period.

10 countries hoarding massive amounts of gold

Mamta Badkar, Business InsiderNovember 9, 2012 12:42

With the fiscal cliff looming and Europe's ongoing sovereign debt crisis investors have rushed back to gold, widely seen as a safe haven.

China to invest in African gold

Matthew Boesler, Business InsiderAugust 16, 2012 15:42

Barrick Gold, the world's biggest gold producer, announced today that they are in talks to sell the 74 percent stake in its African mining business to China National Gold Group Corporation, a state-owned enterprise in China, via a statement on its website.

Peru pro-mining protest turns deadly

Simeon TegelMarch 15, 2012 14:51

LIMA, Peru — Protests against a government crackdown on illegal gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon have erupted into deadly violence.

Philippines: Mining landslide kills 25, dozens missing (VIDEO)

News DeskJanuary 5, 2012 14:22

The landslide took place at about 3 am, and miners reported waking up to rocks and debris falling on the roofs of their huts. According to reports, 16 people were pulled out from the rubble and rushed to hospital for treatment.

Sarah ChildressJanuary 4, 2012 14:02

Tracking Venezuela's gold

Most of it is back safe in Caracas. But it won't all be taken home to the bank

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Hugo Chavez said mid-last year that he was going to take all of Venezuela's gold reserves stored abroad and bring them home.

And for the most part, he did.

But he's leaving about 15 tons behind.

Most analysts figured Chavez had two motives for bringing it home.

Nicaragua goes back to gold

John OtisJanuary 9, 2012 07:30

LA LIBERTAD, Nicaragua — Explosions in this region are no longer the sounds of civil war, but of prospectors searching for gold.