In the classic 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” an old gold prospector opines that the precious metal is valuable because an ounce represents the sweat and heartbreak of ...

BATTLE GROUND, Wash. – There’s gold in them thar hills of Southwest Washington. And in our rivers and on our beaches, too. You just have to know how and where to look for it. Several times a month, ...

BATTLE GROUND — There’s gold in them thar hills of Southwest Washington. And in our rivers and on our beaches, too. You just have to know how and where to look for it. Several times a month, members ...

OROVILLE — Looking very unlike their 1850s gold rush counterparts, three men clad in heavy wetsuits braved the cold Feather River this week in search of gold. Eureka! They found it. Quite a bit of it, ...

reporting from KERN RIVER CANYON, Calif. — David Fiori, waist-deep in the chilly Kern River, braced against the current, stabbed a shovel into the ancient silt between his feet and tossed the muck ...

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With money tight and the price of gold soaring, some people are grabbing gear and taking up theold trade of gold prospecting in Ohio. The price of gold has been breaking records, selling for more than ...

LYTLE CREEK (CBSLA.com) — Is 2014 a repeat of the great Gold Rush of 1849? Prospectors in Southern California are heading to the hills, saying the severe drought has exposed gold that has never been ...

That's led to a surge of interest in gold prospecting in the east fork of the San Gabriel River in the Angeles National Forest. In what has become a modern-day Gold Rush, prospectors of all ages there ...

It’s a Saturday in mid-August in northern Montana, about 45 minutes outside Helena in an area informally referred to as Magpie Gulch by locals. Dustin LeDoux stands in an ankle-deep stream, the ...

OROVILLE — Looking very unlike their 1850s gold rush counterparts, three men clad in heavy wetsuits braved the cold Feather River this week in search of gold. Eureka! They found it. Quite a bit of it, ...