Ezra, my 11-year-old son, and I clung to a thin rope as we scrambled down a steep, rocky hillside into a narrow river canyon. Using the rope, shovels and our muddy boots to slow our descent through ...

DENVER (KDVR) — One short hop over the bridge at Steele Street Park and you’ve taken a giant leap back into Colorado history. These are the prospectors from the Gold Prospectors Association of America ...

There's a gold rush in North Central Ohio and families are invited to stake their claims this weekend, for free. Prospecting takes place from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at ...

When it comes to mining in Michigan, iron and copper tend to get top billing. However, I’ve discovered recently that gold can be found throughout the entire state. A good example is the Ropes Mine ...

The gold rushes of the 19th century have long since ended, but there are still plenty of places you can hunt for the precious metal using a shovel, pan, metal detector, and more. In fact, recreational ...

David Bjelland sat transfixed in front of the TV screen, cake in hand, shooing off his relatives as they tried to wish him a happy birthday. Recovering from throat cancer, he was not in the mood for a ...

The price of an ounce of gold may be surging into the stratosphere in these turbulent economic times, but Bill and Marie Danforth are content to be sitting in a riverbed, digging and sifting and ...

Around 1860, prospectors came to Idaho to find gold in the Boise Basin. The bet was solid, and word got out as people came here to stake claims. This Discovery of gold set one of the largest ...

The gold rushes of the 19th century have long since ended, but there are still plenty of places you can hunt for the precious metal using a shovel, pan, metal detector, and more. In fact, recreational ...

There’s no doubt that recent economic instability has sent gold prices soaring. But gold doesn’t grow on trees–would that it did!—and higher prices for the yellow metal has encouraged companies to go ...