California could be on the verge of its biggest gold rush in generations. Canadian mining company Lode Gold Resources Inc.

More than a century after prospectors helped establish Mariposa during California's Gold Rush, mining companies are once again turning their attention to the area in search of valuable minerals.

A proposed mining project by a Canadian company has renewed concerns over the future of California’s renowned Hot Creek ...

A prospecting company’s search for gold has the town of Lone Pine and Indigenous leaders on edge, as the Trump administration greenlights new projects across the American west ...

Gold discovery sparked a rush that rapidly swelled California’s population and economy—and brought conflict and disruption.

California is full of ghost towns, including this underrated one that was important in the 19th century. It can be a pit stop ...

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 of ...

SD Bullion researched five places for you to start your glittering, gold-seeking adventure using travel and prospecting sites.

TUOLUMNE COUNTY — A quick-moving wildfire burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven out of a nearby camp and the blaze grew without containment ...