A cluster of Old West-style wooden buildings line ... “We’re all sitting on a gold mine in California. So why am I not going after it?” His land features five gold mines and shares a fence ...

The forgotten underwater town at the bottom of a California lake The community first started to grow in the 1860s when miners followed whiskey dealer Adam Hamilton from the old mining town of ...

Just 8 miles from that first discovery site in Coloma, Placerville has another distinction: It’s the only city in all of California to own a gold mine ... involves an old mine, like in ...

But across California ... “Sure there are a lot of old mines around here, but all have a toxic history behind them.” They are the breadcrumbs of gold exploration, the small chunks of quartz ...

One afternoon on his lunch break, he watched an old man pull out a 3 ½-ounce ... the gold rush by opening up shops and mining for gold. Even though California was deemed a free state, however ...