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 ...

Peru’s navy destroyed 19 river-dredging machines in the last two days as the government clamps down on illegal gold mining in the southern Amazon jungle, Defense Minister Jaime Thorne said today. The ...

Northeast Oregon’s Powder River is a small cool, quiet and refreshing stream, but not so long ago, it was a river under siege. It’s a landscape where monstrous gold-dredging machines ravaged the river ...

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 ...

A modern-day gold rush is in full swing in the remote city of Nome, Alaska, and tough gold hunters with tougher machines are dredging the floor of the Bering Sea. In this exclusive clip from the new ...

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