Record-high gold prices hovering at about $5,000 per ounce have triggered a renewed interest in prospecting and mining and what could be the start of a mini gold rush in the California Mother Lode, ...

Although it is now the third-largest state in the U.S., California once had a population of just around 14,000 people. California's population boom was a direct result of the gold rush back in 1848. A ...

Calico Ghost Town Regional Park certainly did not feel like a ghost town last weekend. The line just to pay entrance fees at the San Bernardino County-managed attraction was at least a dozen cars deep ...

The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, in 1848 sparked one of the most famous migrations in American history. Almost overnight, hundreds of thousands of prospectors flooded ...