The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and attracted over 300,000 people to California to find gold, resulting in the ...

California's Gold Country has many historic towns where forty-niners flocked in the mid-19th century. Pan back in time with a ...

Deep in a canyon in the Sierra Nevada, Washington is a palette of nature. However, the California boomtown might not make it ...

How Sierra Nevada's gold rush towns are reinventing themselves How Sierra Nevada's gold rush towns are reinventing themselves Gold is a toxic lure in the world’s highest settlement Gold is a tox ...

In the Mojave town of Johannesburg, 140 miles north of Los Angeles, a stampede for gold has sparked a real estate boom, the ...

Kalundborg, a town of just 16,000 people on the Danish coast about an hour’s drive from Copenhagen, is as close as you might get to a modern-day gold rush town. It's the main production centre ...

The indebted West African state — which goes to the polls on Dec. 7 — is potentially losing billions from illegal gold mining ...

Towns with names like Hangtown ... starvation and homicide during the gold rush. As the surface gold disappeared, individual miners found their dreams of cashing in on the gold rush growing ...