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 ...

IDAHO, USA — One resource is crucial for Idaho's irrigation and recreation: water. The liquid lifelines of Idaho had been the subject of a years-long legal battle over a dredge mining operation in ...

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 ...

A federal court has upheld an environmental law that protects fish habitat from a certain type of gold mining in Oregon rivers and streams. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed ...

(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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Brazilian authorities destroyed 277 illegal gold-mining dredges on the Madeira River with Interpol support, ...

BOGOTA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Colombia and Brazil destroyed 19 illegal gold mining dredges in the Amazon rainforest which were producing about $1.5 million of the precious metal a month and polluting ...

Ride a historic railway, explore hiking trails, and visit a massive antique mining dredge in this former gold rush town in eastern Oregon's Blue Mountains.