How the gold-mining industry, with help from Wall Street, is driving gold's longest bull run in at least six decades and reshaping the lives of people around the world

• Soros Gold Bubble at $1,375 as Miners Push Each Button to Tears

  Here's the story of the SPDR Gold Trust—an ETF that holds more bullion than the Swiss central bank—and the role mining companies played in the precious metal's long bull run

• African Gold Rush Kills Children as Miners Discover Lead Dust

  Villagers in Nigeria raced to pulverize gold-bearing rocks with grain grinders, then washed the dust at communal wells, setting off the world's worst modern lead-poisoning crisis

• Shooting Gold Diggers at African Mine Seen Amid Record Prices

  Security guards and federal police have allegedly shot and killed people scavenging the waste rock at Barrick Gold's North Mara mine in Tanzania

• Shanghai Pushing Gold to $1,600 Thwarts Fight to Shut Mines

  China's hunger for gold will both help drive the price of the metal higher, and at the same time undermine the country's goal of gaining control of its Wild West mining industry

• Bulgari Adds Ceramics Amid Gold Bubble

  Jewelry makers and vendors are trying to adjust to the brutal surge in the gold price, from reopening old mines to designing products that use less of the precious metal

• Video: Gold's Tragic Dividend

  Bloomberg's Cam Simpson visits northern Tanzania, where almost half the people live on less than 33 cents a day, and spoke to villagers searching among waste rock for tiny flecks of gold

• Slide Show: At Tanzanian Gold Mine, Life is Cheap

  At Barrick Golds North Mara mine in Tanzania, poor villagers risk their lives scavenging for gold flecks to feed their families

• Video: Jewelry Hit by Gold Prices

  Bloomberg's Gigi Stone reports on the impact of rising gold prices on jewelry demand and jewelry makers

• Graphics: From Mine to Market

  How gold from the Nigerian state Zamfara reaches the worldwide market and the toxins materials used to mine it

• Video: Nigeria Gold Rush Kills Children

  Bloomberg's Peter Cook reports on the lead-poisoning crisis that was unleashed in northern Nigeria as villagers unknowingly spewed lead dust while grinding ore for gold

• Video: Nigeria's Poisoned Village Children

  Bloomberg's Alan Katz reports on his visit to northern Nigeria, where he spoke to families affected by the worst lead-poisoning crisis in modern medical history

• Graphic: Gold Rush, The Rise of Gold Investing

  The popularity of gold funds like SPDR Gold Trust has driven unprecedented gains for the precious metal. Chart SPDR's growth and compare sovereign gold funds around the world

• Video: ETFs Raise Risk of Gold Bust

  Mark Williams of Boston University's finance and economics department, and Christopher Thompson, former chairman of the World Gold Council, discuss the impact of ETFs on the gold market

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