Newspaper article following gold mining's end? (5)
I believe the answer is:
organ
'newspaper' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'article following gold mining's end?' is the wordplay.
'article' becomes 'an' (indefinite article).
'following' says to put letters next to each other.
'gold' becomes 'or' ('or' is the heraldic name for gold).
'end?' indicates one should take the final letters (I've seen 'ending' mean this).
The final letter of 'mining' is 'g'.
'or'+'g'='org'
'an' after 'org' is 'ORGAN'.
(Other definitions for organ that I've seen before include "Possibly stomach" , "With prompt enthusiasm" , "means for communicating information" , "Wind and keyboard instrument" , "Air-powered instrument" .)