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 ...

BUCK MEADOWS, Calif. — For 170 years, the gold deposits along Sierra stream beds have been so poked and prodded that easy supplies of the precious metal have grown scarce and are a challenge to find.

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 ...

Travis Brown spread a spoonful of thick, black sand onto his sluice table and watched as the system separated out tiny flecks of gold in seconds. Brown, with the Phoenix-based Pro Gold Prospecting, ...

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 ...

Prospecting is certainly not a gold rush for Mike Flint and Kurt Bublitz. Prospecting for gold is a recreational rush for the "digging" duo Flint, Tomah, is president of the Gold Prospectors ...

ALBION, Iowa (KCRG) - The prospectors searching the sand and pebbles for gold specks Saturday knew they weren’t going to get rich. “You ever heard of the Gold Rush in Iowa? There’s a reason,” Brian ...