Giroux Zone Anomalies (One and Two): Located at the headwaters of Giroux Brook—a tributary flowing into the Gilbert River, the epicenter of 19th-century industrial-scale placer gold mining—these ...
Kris Capps / [email protected] Oct 22, 2017 Oct 22, 2017 Updated Jun 12, 2019 FAIRBANKS — When the price of gold went up in the early 1970s, a new generation of gold miners jumped on the ...
In Pakistan's Punjab province, the river is known to yield gold and other minerals, which has led to a surge in illegal ...
"Members of an interregional criminal group specializing in illegal placer gold mining in several Russian regions were detained in the Chelyabinsk Region," the center said. "Gold nuggets and ...
The locals have always been doing placer mining, which means the practice of excavating and separating heavily eroded minerals like gold from sand or gravel. The state government has been trying ...
PRESCOTT, Ariz.— The Prescott National Forest today withdrew its decision to proceed with a controversial mine, the River Bend Placer Mine project, on the Hassayampa River. The withdrawal comes after ...
The site consists of the Nishimikawa Placer Gold Mine, the Aikawa Gold and Silver Mine and the Tsurushi Silver Mine. Mining operations there reached their peak during the early Edo Period (1603 ...