In a blow to illegal gold miners along South America's Madeira River, law enforcement personnel have disabled 277 dredges worth an estimated US$6.8 million.

A long-simmering conflict over individual versus public rights has converged on the banks of the rivers of southwest Oregon, stirring resentment between gold miners and environmentalists. In question ...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) in a November 20th Opinion addressed an issue involving the applicability of the Section 402 Clean Water Act National ...

A bill that aims to improve water quality and protections for endangered salmon by restricting suction dredge mining met with the Senate’s approval Thursday. The bill, HB 1261, would prohibit suction ...

In an echo of nugget-chasers past, a new gold rush is under way on some Northern California rivers -- one that’s generating a wealth of controversy. Wildlife proponents say the mining endangers salmon ...

The Madeira River, one of the Amazon's largest tributaries, flows from the Andes through Bolivia into northern Brazil before joining the main Amazon River — an area long plagued by illegal mining and ...

Gold miner Shannon Poe’s suction dredge mining operation on the South Fork of the Clearwater in Idaho was found to be in violation of the Clean Water Act after the Idaho Conservation League brought a ...

Sen. Guy Palumbo (D-Maltby) has worked on several sustainability-focused bills this year as vice chair of the Environment, Energy and Technology committee, including clean fuels, solar power, electric ...

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, ...

Fisherfolk and coastal residents from Zambales and Ilocos Sur hold a street conference in front of the Department of ...

The big ideas get the most attention, but they aren’t the only solutions that are required. A draft of a long-awaited federal report on a proposal to remove four dams on Washington’s portion of the ...

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 ...