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 ...

HOUSTON, May 16, 2018 — American Electric Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of power delivery solutions for the global energy industry, announced today that its M&I Electric business has been ...

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 ...

The battle over suction dredge gold mining in northern California has taken a new turn as some miners have removed their sluice boxes and resumed mining in rivers and streams. California’s Department ...

may draw miners back to a 2,100-acre rock and gravel wasteland abandoned decades ago after a trio of gigantic gold dredges ravaged an eastern Oregon mountain valley. Ironside Mining Inc. of Elko, Nev.

Gold was discovered in the Fairbanks area in 1902 when Italian immigrant Felix Pedro struck it rich. He put Fairbanks on the map and thousands of men rushed to interior Alaska in search of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Bush administration on Tuesday ordered tons of PCBs removed from New York's upper Hudson River, setting in motion one of the largest dredging operations in the nation's history.