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 ...

In Brazil, two Indigenous Yanomami children drowned last week in a river where illegal gold miners operate. Yanomami leaders said the children, who were 7 and 5 years old, were sucked into a dredger ...

China celebrated another maritime milestone on Friday as a new home-grown dredging vessel, described as one of the world’s most advanced, began water tests. The 140-metre-long, 28-metre-wide Tian Kun ...

The more you get to know the Oregon State Park system, the better you like it. The big campgrounds on the Oregon coast often spring to mind first, but the network of state parks is quite diverse, as ...

The gold rush in Alaska isn't confined to the state's precious ground. It's taking place on the sea ... or more accurately, on the bottom of the frigid Bering Sea. This series, from the creators of ...

NEW DELHI: Aiming to undertake large-scale dredging, desilting, and cleaning operations in the Yamuna River Sahibi, the Delhi government has decided to deploy Finland-made Amphibious Dredger machines.