With its on-set tragedy in the distance, "Rust" turns out to be a watchable buddy-movie Western that lopes along more than it ...

Across West Africa, mercury — a potent neurotoxin — remains the dominant method for extracting gold from ore in the region’s ...

In Senegal’s gold-rich Kedougou region, women and children face serious health risks from mercury exposure used in gold processing ...

KEDOUGOU, Senegal — The quickest way to separate gold from rock, Sadio Camara says ... Along the muddy banks of a rust-colored pond, dozens of women wade knee-deep as they rinse piles of ...

And that appears to be his fate until Rust, his mother’s father, enter the picture. Patrick Scott McDermott, who plays Lucas, is a good young actor with a stoic rock-star pout. There are moments ...

I toured "The Rock" with my wife ... maintenance is a never-ending, gold-plated headache. Reopening Alcatraz isn't "tough on crime." It's tough on taxpayers, and easy on rust." ...