Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin.

Every year, members of the Gold Prospectors Association of America pack up their RVs in search of adventure, friendship, and a bucketful of pay dirt.

A 5-part series on how drug lords make billions smuggling gold to the U.S. for your jewelry and phones.

As jobs and food disappear, formerly middle class Venezuelans are descending on gaping illegal mining pits, some as deep as fifteen stories, searching for gold but often finding armed gangs and malaria.