Early California gold mining occurred at a time when the ounce price of gold in 1833 was $18.93 and peaked at a federal limit ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, fueling Stockton's rapid growth, many are still digging for riches all over California.

Few experiences make gold mining history come alive ... start at the North Star Mining Museum in adjacent Grass Valley, California, then head back to Nevada City to check out the Firehouse No ...

A Rush of Gold Seekers By 1849, the non-native population of California had grown to almost 100,000 people. Nearly two-thirds were Americans. Upon arrival in California, immigrants learned mining ...

Back then, even Southern California ... He saw gold flakes clinging to the roots. He recognized it, his relatives said, because he had gone to a Mexico City’s school of mining as a young ...

Social and environmental groups claimed the project could cause water and air problems not disclosed in an environmental ...

which is threatened by gold mining. “What’s more valuable than gold? Protecting life from extinction,” said Nick Jensen, conservation program director at the California Native Plant Society. “We are ...

LOS ANGELES— A Canadian mining company has announced it’s suspending a proposal to expand gold mining exploration and road building on California’s Conglomerate Mesa after the U.S. Bureau of Land ...

A Rush of Gold Seekers By 1849, the non-native population of California had grown to almost 100,000 people. Nearly two-thirds were Americans. Upon arrival in California, immigrants learned mining ...