Baker City Herald

Baker County commissioners to ban mining in county-owned dredge tailings

Some of the most heavily mined ground in Baker County will soon be off limits to any future searches for gold.
Baker City Herald

Helicopter surveys in parts of Baker, Malheur, Wallowa counties will yield better geologic maps

A helicopter fitted with a device that looks something like a mosquito’s proboscis will be flying over parts of Baker County ...
Oregonian

Baker City, Oregon’s ‘Queen City of the Mines,’ is celebrating its sesquicentennial

BAKER CITY — It could be called the City of Clocks. Antique timepieces, some working and others frozen in place, rise above Baker City’s skyline on towers that mimic the pointed peaks of the Elkhorn ...
The Montana Standard

The woods of Oregon's Sumpter Valley yield another mining relic

SUMPTER, Ore. (AP) — A historic 100-ton gold-mining dragline at the edge of this former mining town may soon be back in limited operation. Abandoned 62 years ago in a forest of pine, fir and larch ...