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Peñasquito's Pyrite Leach Project (PLP), in Mexico, one of the first projects completed under major Goldcorp’s revamped investment framework, has had its maiden gold pour, the Vancouver-headquartered ...

Confirming once more that it cannot be trusted, the metal known as fool’s gold, aka pyrite, can contain bits of the real thing, according to an Australian-Chinese research team. Getting at the trapped ...

The mineral pyrite was historically nicknamed fool’s gold because of its deceptive resemblance to the real precious metal — gold. The term was often used during the California gold rush in the 1840s ...