Call it a history lesson paved in gold. A Yuba City man, 94, sent a letter to CBS Sacramento inviting us to tour something that played a big part in his life and the region — a gold dredge. One of the ...

FAIRBANKS - The Fairbanks Exploration Co.’s Gold Dredge No. 8 at Fox (shown in the drawing) is perhaps the most visible and well-known dredge in the Fairbanks area, but the FE Co. actually operated ...

Environmental groups pushed for the law. They say rivers in Oregon have become crowded with gold miners using vacuum-like dredges, called suction dredges, as a result of rising gold prices and new ...

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 ...

FAIRBANKS — Summer 2018 will mark my 20th anniversary as a tour guide at Gold Dredge 8 in Fox. In that time, I have worked for several owners and presented information about the gold mining history of ...

An unprecedented gold-dredging project near Nome is being opposed by groups that fear it is so large it would threaten subsistence hunters, salmon and other wildlife. One video claimed the operation ...

(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 ...

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.

BOISE, Idaho — A suction-dredge gold miner from California who operated in an Idaho river containing federally protected salmon and steelhead without permits required by the Clean Water Act must pay ...