Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in ...

In a blow to illegal gold miners along South America's Madeira River, law enforcement personnel have disabled 277 dredges ...

Interpol and partners have launched a global law enforcement effort to fight illegal deforestation in tropical areas.

The California Supreme Court says a ban on the use of suction dredges to extract gold from rivers is legal and not overridden by a 19th century federal law that allows mining on federal land FILE - In ...

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 ...

(AP) – An Indian tribe, conservation groups and salmon fishermen filed a lawsuit challenging the return of suction dredges to mine for gold in California rivers. The lawsuit was filed late Monday in ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has cited five individuals in Siskiyou County for illegal suction dredge mining in state waterways. Suction dredgers operate by creating a vacuum ...

Mamamayang Liberal Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima has called for an investigation into a Chinese company’s dredging operations ...

A long-simmering conflict over individual versus public rights has converged on the banks of the rivers of southwest Oregon, stirring resentment between gold miners and environmentalists. In question ...

URGING Malacañang to take immediate action, a House deputy minority leader on Tuesday filed a measure seeking an urgent congressional inquiry into the large-scale dredging and extraction activities of ...

BOGOTA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Colombia and Brazil destroyed 19 illegal gold mining dredges in the Amazon rainforest which were producing about $1.5 million of the precious metal a month and polluting ...

Gov. Kitzhaber signed a bill that limits the number of small gold-mining dredges in Oregon’s rivers. According to the group Rogue Riverkeeper, the number of permits issued in Oregon jumped from 414 in ...