GadgetTrak, a small startup in Portland, Ore.

FORBES: To Shame A Thief

Convention centers are springing up everywhere, in big cities (Denver, Portland, Ore.) and small (Schaumburg, Ill.).

FORBES: Taxing Yourself Rich

But Mr. Luoto's grandfather and father were both loggers, and his family now owns a small timber firm in Carlton, Ore.

WSJ: Not All Jobs Are Created Equal

When Dena Drews, cofounder of the small Amalie Robert winery in Dallas, Ore.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Previously, they used relatively small amounts of everything from oil to iron ore.

CNN: Money & Investing

Since 2007 Galantas Gold Corporation, a Canadian firm, has been working what is currently Britain's only gold-producing mine at Omagh, in Northern Ireland, shipping the ore to Canada and running a small gold-jewellery operation.

ECONOMIST: The high price of gold is encouraging miners to dream

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that a major insider-trading investigation includes an examination of small research firms including Broadband Research in Portland, Ore.

WSJ: Insider Probe Focuses on Supply-Chain Data

He remembers a hotel lobby in the small, blue-collar port town of Arlington, Ore.

NPR: Woody Guthrie's Fertile Month on the Columbia River

People survive either from agriculture or from small-scale mining of gold or colombo-tantalite, an ore used in mobile phones that makes its way to the outside world through Uganda or Rwanda.

ECONOMIST: Eastern Congo

In Western Australia, where most of the iron ore resides, the boom has created unprecedented prosperity, along with a small tribe of billionaires.

NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter