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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As part of the settlement, Bunker Hill Mining Corp. will pay EPA up to $20 million, on behalf of Placer Mining, in satisfaction of EPA's past costs claim against Placer Mining, and Placer Mining ...

MISSOULA, Mont. (CN) - A massive mining project will destroy the landscape and divert and pollute water from creeks in a pristine Montana mountain chain and wilderness, a placer mining company claims ...

The practice has been controversial because of noise and concerns about harm to fish habitat and water quality. Suction dredge, or placer mining, is a kind of motorized in-stream mineral extraction.

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 ...

Floodplains are extraordinarily productive because they are the connection between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They are socially and economically vital because tens of thousands of families ...

TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – The third instalment of the popular docu-series Yukon Gold will return to the History channel next week, giving viewers a modern-day, fly-on-the-wall peek at what exactly ...

WALLACE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On March 31, 2014, a special meeting of the shareholders of Placer Creek Mining Company was held in Post Falls, Idaho: (1) to approve the Company’s distribution to its ...

The Department of Natural Resources (“DNR”) Division of Mining, Land and Water has issued guidance for placer mining operations to comply with the state’s COVID-19 health mandates. Mining is ...

PESHAWAR: Following revelations of massive irregularities in the auction of placer gold blocks, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has ordered a comprehensive inquiry into the entire process of placer ...