Every summer, Mike Leslie and his wife load up their camping gear and gold mining equipment and head to the Middle Fork of the Yuba River for the weekend. Leslie is among dozens of locals and folks ...

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(AP) – An Indian tribe, conservation groups and salmon fishermen filed a lawsuit challenging the return of suction dredges to mine for gold in California rivers. The lawsuit was filed late Monday in ...

BAKER COUNTY — Some of the most heavily mined ground in Baker County soon will be off limits to any future searches for gold. Baker County Commissioners voted 3-0 on Oct. 15 to repeal a 2017 ordinance ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has cited five individuals in Siskiyou County for illegal suction dredge mining in state waterways. Suction dredgers operate by creating a vacuum ...

The dredges’ impact on the river is so violent that satellite images show how, in a few days, the interruption of mining and the miners’ departure ahead of the police action caused a rapid change in ...

Mongabay Latam traveled along 38 kilometers (24 miles) of Peru’s Cenepa River, near the border with Ecuador, where illegal mining dredges run around the clock in search of gold, hemming in seven ...

A federal court has upheld an environmental law that protects fish habitat from a certain type of gold mining in Oregon rivers and streams. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed ...

Gov. Kitzhaber signed a bill that limits the number of small gold-mining dredges in Oregon’s rivers. According to the group Rogue Riverkeeper, the number of permits issued in Oregon jumped from 414 in ...