The pictures we conjure of gold mining are usually cartoonish – old prospectors in floppy hats, panning creeks or working away with a pickaxe. Rarely do we imagine anything like the Sumpter Valley ...

Not long ago in the old Sumpter Valley, a mechanical beast the size of an apartment building spent its days plodding along the stream beds, eating the valley floor. As it dug itself ever deeper into ...

FRESNO, Calif. – A legal battle is brewing over whether California gold miners should be allowed to vacuum up the bottoms of rivers. The controversy is about a process called suction dredge mining, a ...

Even though the Gold Rush is long gone, the fight over the valuable mineral rages on in California. For over a decade, gold miners have been battling with the state government and conservationists in ...

Peru’s navy destroyed 19 river-dredging machines in the last two days as the government clamps down on illegal gold mining in the southern Amazon jungle, Defense Minister Jaime Thorne said today. The ...

SUMPTER, Ore. — The beauty of traveling Oregon’s back roads and byways is the unexpected treasure that you may find along the way – not just the scenery, but interesting lessons about Oregon’s past.

GRANTS PASS, Ore.GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Small-time miners running suction dredges to glean flecks of gold from salmon streams face tighter regulations announced Tuesday by Oregon environmental ...