The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) in a November 20th Opinion addressed an issue involving the applicability of the Section 402 Clean Water Act National ...

An Indian tribe, conservation groups and salmon fishermen are battling in court against gold miners who want to suck the precious metal out of riverbeds in California in a process 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 ...

The long-simmering feud involving tribal groups, environmentalists and hobbyist miners is now complicating life for small suction-dredge miners in the historic mining state of Idaho. The Pacific ...