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A proposed Southeast Oregon lithium project has been under review for three years. Now the Trump administration is giving people until Monday to comment before proceeding.
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Environmental groups are poised to return to court in an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over a lithium mine near the Oregon-Nevada border.
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The scientists of the American Fisheries Society spent four years working on a position paper on how mining and fossil-fuel extraction affect…
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Only three weeks remain before motorized suction dredge mining comes to a halt on Oregon streams. Oregon, like California, enacted a moratorium banning…
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Environmental groups found a friendly ear in the Oregon Legislature a couple of years ago, convincing legislators to pass a five-year ban on suction…
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Southern Oregon and Northern California's Smith River could be temporarily protected from mining by a maneuver proposed by the Bureau of Land…
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Get ready for a big debate over suction-dredge mining in the next session of the Oregon legislature. Gold miners are fond of using suction dredges in…
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It's one of the sharper debates in extractive industries: what happens to land that has been mined. Think about strip mines and mountaintop-removal…
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The first mention of "The New 49ers" came in a discussion of water quality on a recent Exchange. Like the 49ers of old, they are in search of gold in the…