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 ...

In the 1800s, gold, silver and copper booms lured miners and immigrants looking for a better life. Though the mines ...

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 ...

Deep in the Mojave National Preserve lies an old open pit mine where ... the mineral rights holders to resume gold mining following review under the California Environmental Quality Act and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...