Lundgren, who calls himself the Glacial Gold Hunter, is a 40-year-old geologist who has spent the last year and a half ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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One short hop over the bridge at Steele Street Park and you've taken a giant leap back into Colorado history. These are the ...

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 ...

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 ...

An amateur gold prospector stumbles upon a rock containing kilos of gold in Victoria thanks to a cheap detector.

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 ...

One surprising ripple effect of the Great Recession is the resurgence of independent gold prospecting. In California, evaporated savings, layoffs, and foreclosures sent some running to the hills.