Guinean migrants turn dust into gold
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It looks like a medieval alchemist's den, this tumbledown shack where young Africans use bubbling blue acid to turn dust into gold.
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Salvadoran immigrant Aresenio Ayala walked past the Western Union outlet on Mount Pleasant Road last week and stopped instead at Mi Pueblo, where he sent money to a relative in San Salvador. He said he decided to give the company a try after he saw a flier in the neighborhood.
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The South African mining company Lonmin is one of many whose results are suffering from what one broker charming calls &quot;dollar mange&quot;.
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By James Hagengruber, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jan. 30--LIBBY, Mont. -- After finishing a shift at the vermiculite mine, Les Skramstad would come home covered in the white dust of asbestos.   He'd find the dust in deep recesses of his wallet.
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Some Indonesian locals are seeing large-scale relief missions as a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make big bucks.
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The mining colony established by Christopher Columbus on his second trip to the Americas began to pilfer its own supply of ore in the face of rapidly deteriorating conditions, according to a new study.
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The attraction, criticized by some as a training ground for would-be illegal migrants, is meant to help the local economy.
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GUIYU, China  - Guiyu is a modern day gold rush town. But instead of panning for gold in babbling streams, workers shift through piles of broken old computer parts in acrid smelling shacks, smelting down parts with crude equipment to extract valuable metals like gold and copper.
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Mauritania seizes a boatload of Africans heading for Europe for the first time.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Christophe Gnonrou Sibi, 28, drives a cab and lives in a shantytown on the edge of this muggy West African city, Ivory Coast's commercial capital.
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West Africa is becoming a hub for immigrants, especially Southeast Asians, with a goal of getting into Europe by reaching Spain's Canary Islands.
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POLATLI, Turkey  - Cetin Akyar's calloused hands   pass over a string of black prayer beads as traders at the   Polatli Commodity Exchange determine the price for his harvest   of nine and a half tonnes of wheat.
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There's no end in sight to the agony of millions of displaced people, but servicing the needs of the thousands of aid workers and peacekeepers has created an economic boom in a dusty northern town
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Across the developing world, migrants move to other poor countries nearly as often as they move to rich ones.
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Human remains smuggled out of the Kimberley almost a century ago are today back in Australia.
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The first ever commercially viable uranium reserves are found in the West African nation of Guinea.
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Sulley Muntari's last-gasp wonder goal gives hosts Ghana a 2-1 win in their opening Africa Cup of Nations game against Guinea.