Some of the most heavily mined ground in Baker County will soon be off limits to any future searches for gold.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A gold rush brought settlers to South Dakota’s Black Hills roughly 150 years ago, chasing the dream of wealth and displacing Native Americans in the process. Now, a new crop ...
Emily Cureton Cook / OPB Negotiations over how a mining company will monitor itself amid accusations of groundwater pollution in Crook County are expected to come to a head this week. Friday is the ...
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - A Jackson County sheriff's spokeswoman says authorities are working to identify human remains found in southern Oregon by a man mining for gold. Spokeswoman Andrea Carlson says ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Dakota Gold, a mining corporation, has announced to investors that their initial assessment on the Richmond Hill Gold Project near Spearfish Canyon has the potential to net ...
The soaring price of gold is fueling a "mercury boom" in central Mexico. A surge in the demand for the toxic metal, which is key in illegal gold mining, is benefiting Mexican miners but also exposing ...