On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a creek ... in 2023 found that a total of 10,373 gold-bearing locations ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, fueling Stockton's rapid growth, many are still digging for riches all over California.

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California ... the gold fields, wrote a report that contained astounding facts: two miners on Weber Creek gathered ...

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Gold nuggets (placer gold). Credit: James St. John / CC BY 2.0 James Marshall changed California’s ... believes even less has been found. Prebalick began prospecting in 1979 after watching a man pull ...

“I once found a nugget the size of my palm,” a prospector told the National Geographic. He explained that only a fraction of the region’s gold was unearthed during the California Gold ... Colorado ...

Archaeologists in Autun, France, found rare fabric fragments, including a large purple piece, woven with gold threads in several ancient tombs. Photo from Lucie Marquat / Inrap Archaeologists in ...

The unquenchable demand for gold spurred a mass migration and fueled the genocide of Native communities Laura Kiniry Travel Correspondent Sutter's Mill, California, where John Augustus Sutter ...

UPDATE: Lancaster County coroner IDs body found in Pequea Creek Sunday First responders who came to a water rescue in Conestoga Township on Sunday afternoon reported one person found near Pequea ...