This might be news to city slickers, but down in southwest Oregon there's still plenty of gold in them thar rivers. Dave McCracken, founder and president of The New 49'ers Prospecting Association, ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law Senate Bill 637 to protect California’s water supplies, wildlife and cultural resources from the damaging effects of suction dredge gold mining. The new ...

Oregon issued a new permit for small-scale gold miners today, tougher than the old one but still largely self-enforcing. The permit from the Department of Environmental Quality covers instream miners ...

Now radical enviros are after the gold miners in California and Oregon whose small suction dredges have worked gold-bearing streams in the mountains for at least the last 50 years but in recent years ...

The hobbist miner from Grangeville whose permit use a suction dredge in search of gold and garnets in the Salmon River prompted a lawsuit against the state now says he’d decided not to dredge there ...

The Oregon Senate passed a bill Monday that would put permanent restrictions on motorized suction dredge mining to protect sensitive salmon and lamprey habitat. The bill’s backers called it a win for ...

HAPPY CAMP, Calif. — Small-scale miners still drawn to California to chase dreams of striking it rich will have to find their gold nuggets the old-fashioned way for awhile, with shovels and pans. Gov.

BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) – The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has finalized the Idaho Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (IPDES) general permit for Small Suction Dredge Mining. The ...

The long-simmering feud involving tribal groups, environmentalists and hobbyist miners is now complicating life for small suction-dredge miners in the historic mining state of Idaho. The Pacific ...

RIGGINS, Idaho -- A small group of miners used their suction dredges on the Salmon River to protest new regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency. About 40 people assembled Monday afternoon ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a new permit and rules for recreational miners who use small-scale suction dredging equipment to explore for gold in rivers and ...