California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law Senate Bill 637 to protect California’s water supplies, wildlife and cultural resources from the damaging effects of suction dredge gold mining. The new ...

There’s gold in them there rivers and streams of Oregon, but there are salmon, too – and state officials are on the side of the fish, not the prospectors. At issue is a technique known as “suction ...

This might be news to city slickers, but down in southwest Oregon there's still plenty of gold in them thar rivers. Dave McCracken, founder and president of The New 49'ers Prospecting Association, ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a new permit and rules for recreational miners who use small-scale suction dredging equipment to explore for gold in rivers and ...

MEDFORD, Ore. (CN) - Oregon's moratorium on environmentally destructive suction dredge mining to protect salmon spawning habitat violates gold miners' rights, prospectors claim in Federal Court.

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a request from recreational gold miners to overturn a California Supreme Court decision upholding a statewide moratorium on recreational suction ...

the legislation brings Washington into line with other Western states that in recent years have banned or severely restricted the recreational sucking up of river sediments in hopes of finding ...

Sen. Guy Palumbo (D-Maltby) has worked on several sustainability-focused bills this year as vice chair of the Environment, Energy and Technology committee, including clean fuels, solar power, electric ...

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 ...

BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) – The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has finalized the Idaho Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (IPDES) general permit for Small Suction Dredge Mining. The ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— California Gov. Jerry Brown today signed into law Senate Bill 637 to protect California’s water supplies, wildlife and cultural resources from the damaging effects of destructive ...

The practice has been controversial because of noise and concerns about harm to fish habitat and water quality. Suction dredge, or placer mining, is a kind of motorized in-stream mineral extraction.