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 ...

Today the lone surviving dredge stands as the centerpiece of one of Oregon's newest state parks. (Photo/Mark Highberger). Not long ago in the old Sumpter Valley, a mechanical beast the size of an ...

BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (CBS4) - They're scars left over from a bygone era -- huge piles of torn-up earth that lie in the valleys surrounding Breckenridge. These are the tailings piles from the numerous ...

A 2-foot dredge from Proline Mining Equipment is shown as an example of motorized gold-passing equipment in a N.H. Department of Environmental Services publication. Credit: Courtesy—Proline Mining ...

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 ...

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.

Even though the Gold Rush is long gone, the fight over the valuable mineral rages on in California. For over a decade, gold miners have been battling with the state government and conservationists in ...

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 ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore.GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Small-time miners running suction dredges to glean flecks of gold from salmon streams face tighter regulations announced Tuesday by Oregon environmental ...

Not long ago in the old Sumpter Valley, a mechanical beast the size of an apartment building spent its days plodding along the stream beds, eating the valley floor. As it dug itself ever deeper into ...