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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Medford court decided the state does indeed have the power to regulate mining methods. The U.S. District Court in Medford has affirmed an Oregon law restricting gold mining in and around ...

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.

ONTARIO, Ore. • A section of Eastern Oregon suffering from high unemployment hopes a renewed interest from mining companies in its uranium and gold stores leads to a jobs boom, but ...

“It’s a mining ditch, an aqueduct,” said Rose ... many of who came as miners when Gold Fever hit Oregon in the mid 1800s. At one point, 40% of the residents of Grant County, where Rose ...