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 ...

The scenery on the Bear River near Colfax is beautiful, but more and more people are coming to the river to pan for gold."It's just kind of like a hobby but there is always that hope of finding that ...

Just because we're long past the days of the 49ers and old-time prospectors, don't think mining for gold has been relegated to the dustbin of history. Interest in small-scale mining is booming, thanks ...

If you’re into history, especially the Gold Rush era, California has some incredible towns that bring the past to life. These ...

BAKER CITY, Ore. — Back when Seattle was striking it rich by supplying fortune hunters during the Alaska Gold Rush, a smaller rush was booming closer to home. As early as the mid-1800s, prospectors ...

Gold was discovered in 1848 in the American River near Coloma, about an hour away from Sacramento, igniting the Gold Rush. And even though hundreds of thousands of pounds were extracted from ...