The American Gold Rush was a wild, chaotic time that transformed the country almost overnight. In the mid-1800s, prospectors — known as “forty-niners,” since the peak of the Gold Rush occurred during ...

Many years ago I was watching a show on television about gold prospecting. One of the people on that show said that most people are walking around on gold and don’t even realize it. That got me to ...

In 1938, gold prospectors worked the Los Angeles River. In later years, the river received its concrete coat — stopping the prospecting. Writer Don Ashbaugh reported in the Dec. 12, 1938, Los Angeles ...

During the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s, people rushed to the Yukon and Alaska to claim a part of the gold as their own. The Klondike Gold Rush brought thousands of people to the area, which ...

Join us as we run 7.5 gallons of material through our sluice box and pan every bit of concentrate. From fine flour gold to small nuggets, see exactly how much gold we recovered! #GoldMiningLife ...

This picture shows the miners washing out gold by what is known as the sluice box method. Here we see the miners shovelling from both sides the soil containing the gold into the sluice boxes, where ...

The running water in a river can cause deposits of gold to form: in the riverbed, on the neighboring inundation plains or the banks of the river. These are known as gold placer deposits, and they have ...