As early as the mid-1800s, prospectors were panning and digging around the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon. A few even struck it rich. Spurred by high gold prices and mankind’s ever ...

All you need to do is chase the gold miners who came before him. Prospectors once flooded the Oregon wilds, panning rivers and dredging up the desert in search of prosperity. Today, you can follow ...

There may be gold in Alaska, but the Oregon men who hunted ... With the end of the Alaska mining season, Turin is back in Sandy, working at his family business. We talked about the challenges ...

“It is really the only effective way to get the gold,” said Poe, who owns five dredges and holds claims in five states, including Oregon. “You could still go in with a shovel and a ...

Oregon Trail interpretive Center 22267 Oregon ... Regular admission is $5; $3.50 for children 6 to 17. Sumpter, Ore. Old gold-mining town offers gold-panning and the Elkhorn Crest Trail ...

The beauty of traveling Oregon’s back roads and byways is the ... about Baker County‘s past — especially the county’s gold mining past, when giant gold mining dredges turned the Powder ...

STATEWIDE There may be gold in them thar Oregon hills, but nobody’s mining it. Even with gold prices hovering at all-time highs in the neighborhood of $1,000 per ounce, the same dozen or so mining ...

US-focused Paramount Gold Nevada (NYSE ... to move forward with the company’s plan to open an underground mining operation in the area. “The PFS clearly shows that Grassy Mountain is a ...

The beauty of traveling Oregon’s back roads and byways is the ... about Baker County‘s past — especially the county’s gold mining past, when giant gold mining dredges turned the Powder ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) Oregon is tightening water quality restrictions on wilderness mining and suction gold dredges, which small-time miners use to glean flecks of gold from river bottoms long ...

Paramount Gold / Courtesy of Oregon DOGAMI A Nevada company has reached ... a document that kicks off a review process where the mining proposal will face regulatory and public scrutiny.