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Rockhounding and gold prospecting are two activities that anyone with some basic equipment and know-how can partake in.

Cost: Underground mine tours take place on the hour and cost $23.95 for adults and $17.95 for kids, including gold panning. Otherwise, gold panning is $9.95. Prices are subject to change What: Gold ...

(KTXL) — Over 170 years later, the Gold Rush still isn’t over for some Northern California residents. Gold was first discovered in 1848, leading to the California Gold Rush and changing the course of ...

In the classic 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” an old gold prospector opines that the precious metal is valuable because an ounce represents the sweat and heartbreak of ...

PINE GROVE — Snaking down the steep canyon to the Roaring Camp Mining Company, bumping up and down on the back of a flatbed truck with the sun bearing down, my 8-year-old wasn’t sure just how excited ...