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 ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Wednesday took strict measures against illegal gold mining in the province by imposing section 144 for ...

Near-record gold prices have returned attention to a part of eastern Kern County known to contain precious minerals. An outfit based in Inyokern has applied for permission to excavate on a five-acre, ...