VIDEO BELOW FROM THE ARCHIVES | History + competition = gold panning championships in Placerville Northern California has a long history of people searching for gold. The first gold was found in ...

Fierro is involved with gold panning groups in the Sacramento ... the American River and Yuba River in Northern California. Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, Auburn State Recreational ...

In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, former mining hamlets appeal to hikers, historians, and foodies. A replica of Sutter’s Mill, where gold was first spotted in Northern California ...

Most forms of gold mining have since been outlawed in California ... Still, the so-called Gold Rush 2.0 has also drawn some skeptics. Northern California geologist and historian David Lawler ...

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths ...