The nearly 2-million-pound behemoth began its 8,700-mile journey over road, river and ocean in 31 pieces from Germany to its new home in Canada.

The large mining companies were highly successful at extracting gold. Using a technique called hydraulic mining, they extracted $170 million in gold between 1860 and 1880. In the process ...

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Hydraulic mining, or power washing, was one method. The Romans used a similar technique. They filled a reservoir or tank above the area to be flushed and allowed the water to flow down the ...

Lynx Creek saw a flurry of activity in the form of the construction of arrastras, sluices and hydraulic mining operations. Hydraulic operations along Lynx Creek began humbly in 1869 with the ...

More broadly, majorities of Democrats oppose all forms of fossil fuel development we asked about in our recent survey, including offshore oil and gas drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and coal mining.