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Most placer mining operations in Alaska are small, but combined they bring in more than $100 million a year. That’s according to a new study from the Alaska Miners Association looking at the economic ...

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It’s well known that placer mining in Silver Bow Creek and lode, or hard-rock, mining in the veins on the Butte Hill began almost simultaneously, in 1864. With the advent of underground mining for ...

Kern County’s gold-mining history is still being written. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management property announced this week it has approved the first gold mining operation on federal property in eastern ...