The Oregon gold rush started around 1850, around the same time people started digging up California. The first miners found gold in the Klamath Mountains of southwest Oregon, ...

Oregonians who hike along southwest Oregon's rivers were probably surprised at a May 1 story on mining in Oregon ("Gold is up but few take a shine to mining"). The story focused on the lack of new ...

STATEWIDE There may be gold in them thar Oregon hills, but nobody’s mining it. Even with gold prices hovering at all-time highs in the neighborhood of $1,000 per ounce, the same dozen or so mining ...

There’s gold in them there rivers and streams of Oregon, but there are salmon, too – and state officials are on the side of the fish, not the prospectors.

The seafloor off the Oregon coast now holds a little less mystery, thanks to a team of geologists, oceanographers and commercial fishermen. They’ve mapped the region's near-shore ocean floor in ...

Paramount Gold has submitted its operations plan to federal regulators and is closer to a permit decision from the state of Oregon, but still faces a long road to approval. July 1, 2025 contribute now ...