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 ...

Dave Turin first became a familiar face to TV viewers thanks to “Gold Rush,” the hit Discovery Channel series in which Turin worked alongside fellow Oregonian Todd Hoffman in search of gold. Since ...

Get some muck boots and a pan. That's all you need to find gold in New Hampshire. We met up with the Nutmeg Prospectors at Twin River Campground in Bath.This camp offers tools to purchase and access ...

Contrary to what most people assume, the gold rush didn’t end in the 1800s. Across the U.S., people still pull real gold from rivers, streams, and old mining sites simply with a shovel and a gold pan.

Soaring gold prices, viral panning influencers, macho gold-mining reality shows, and Trump’s gold obsession have ignited a craze for prospecting not seen since 1849.

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 ...

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 ...

A Victorian man has unearthed a gold nugget while filming a prospecting tutorial video in WA's Goldfields with his wife. Kevin Richardson found the 7-ounce nugget under a shrub in bushland about 600km ...

Gold just smashed records at $5,589/oz. Here's why hobbyist prospectors are quietly turning creek beds into a legitimate side ...