Chinese rescue workers have pulled 11 gold miners to safety after two weeks of being trapped underground following an explosion.

Twelve workers who were left trapped underground after an explosion at a gold mine in eastern China a week ago are still alive.

Drone images show accident area after an explosion in a mine under construction in eastern China.

The United Arab Emirates has become a trade hub in the region, with strong links across West and Asia, and Europe.

A new report says the UAE has in recent years tuned into a hub for dirty gold trade, with lax regulatory oversight allowing the smuggling of the precious metal from conflict zones to the Persian Gulf country.

Iran has made a gold discovery in southeast Sistan and Baluchestan province, where definite reserves of 8 tonnes of the precious metal have been found, a provincial official says.

Venezuela has renewed efforts to recover frozen gold reserves held by the Bank of England.

Iran has staked out 1,000 promising gold prospects which are thought to help carve out a niche as important as steel in the country’s mining sector, an official says.

While the Central African country boasts of mineral deposits estimated to be worth trillions of dollars, the wealth has fueled a never-ending war that has left millions dead, hundreds of thousands displaced.

Venezuela’s crude output has fallen to the lowest level in nearly eight decades as US imposed sanctions on the country. This report explores the human cost of Washington's policies in Venezuela.