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.

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 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Brazilian police backed by Interpol have destroyed hundreds of dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River, in one of the biggest coordinated crackdowns yet on ...

(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 ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- Caribbean News Global) LYON, France – INTERPOL has supported the first operation coordinated by the Amazon International Police Cooperation Centre (CCPI Amazônia) in Brazil against illegal ...

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A pond among the dredge tailing piles in Sumpter Valley on Sept. 8, 2025. Baker County officials want to build trails and add other amenities to the 972 acres the county owns in the tailings about 26 ...

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.

PUERTO MALDONADO, PERU -- Boriam Valera has seen his future. It shimmers -- and sells for more than $1,100 an ounce. The tousled 30-year-old works a homemade gold-mining dredge along the banks of the ...