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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 ...

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, ...

A section of Nome Creek in the White Mountains National Recreation Area, seen in June, shows how historic placer mining, which dredged much of the waterway, molded the bank into a scalloped rock wall.

The Sado Island Gold Mines are a serial property located on Sado Island, some fifty-five kilometers west of the Niigata Prefecture coast. It is formed of three component parts articulated around two ...