One hundred and seventy-seven years later, California continues to lead the U.S. in gold production and discovery. The spirit of the original forty-niners who tilled the land lives on in those ...

Gold nuggets (placer gold). Credit: James St. John / CC BY 2.0 James Marshall changed California’s history on Jan. 24, 1848, when he spotted shiny flecks in a creek near Coloma. The small gold nuggets ...

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold ... immigrants learned mining was the hardest kind of labor. They moved rock, dug dirt and waded into freezing streams.

Stockton's very history is indelibly tied to the Gold Rush. One hundred and seventy-seven years later, California continues to lead the U.S. in gold production and discovery. The spirit of the ...

Early California gold mining occurred at a time when the ounce ... where they explore existing workings and drill into new ...

On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the foothills ...

That is the story of the California Gold Rush. But for almost 200 years ... including Sally Bell’s of the Massacre at Needle ...

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 ...

The rock daisy, already listed as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act, faces mounting threats from gold mining in its region. “A company determined to dig up the Inyo Mountains in ...