Sluice boxes remain one of the most effective tools for gold prospecting, helping miners separate valuable gold from sediment ...

Three people have been issued environmental citations for using sluice boxes for gold prospecting without a permit, according to the state s Agency of Natural Resources. A news release was sent out ...

One of my ancestral lines came West for the mining. There is a family story that my great-great-grandpa shot and killed someone who was trying to jump his Park City, Utah, mining claim. He then turned ...

David Bjelland sat transfixed in front of the TV screen, cake in hand, shooing off his relatives as they tried to wish him a happy birthday. Recovering from throat cancer, he was not in the mood for a ...

The running water in a river can cause deposits of gold to form: in the riverbed, on the neighboring inundation plains or the banks of the river. These are known as gold placer deposits, and they have ...

The two suspects worked as an excavator operator and a mechanic handling a gold sluice box at the illegal gold mine.