The gold rushes of the 19th century have long since ended, but there are still plenty of places you can hunt for the precious metal using a shovel, pan, metal detector, and more. In fact, recreational ...

Kalispell prospector Jon VanDort, left, has been teaching kids and adults how to pan gold for years. VanDort has been looking for gold in Libby Creek for more than 10 years. He shared the stream ...

Parker Schnabel tests new equipment at Sulfur Creek as the crew races to start a second wash plant on Gold Rush ...

JAMESTOWN, Calif. - The historic, recording-breaking rains to hit the state this past winter and spring have led to exciting opportunities for modern day prospectors, hoping to strike it rich in what ...

Around 1860, prospectors came to Idaho to find gold in the Boise Basin. The bet was solid, and word got out as people came here to stake claims. This Discovery of gold set one of the largest ...

CAVE CREEK, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - A trip to the museum ended with a young Arizona student taking home a shiny new treasure. On Thursday, 9-year-old Case Wallace and his class were participating in the ...

Aaron Chandler was in a secluded creek panning for gold in Lumpkin County last year when unexpectedly another gold hunter walked up. “I thought it was my secret place,” the Athens resident and gold ...

Byron Williams, who published the exhaustive 1913 history of Clermont and Brown counties in Ohio, spares not a single word in his two-volume epic for the gold rush of 1868. Perhaps this is ...

After the discovery of a 17-pound nugget in Little Meadow Creek, North Carolina, the state became a major hotbed of gold mining as a part of the first American gold rush in 1799. Early discoveries ...

Kalispell Middle School teacher Kris Schreiner demonstrates how to use a sluice to eighth-graders, from left, Shyann Richsel, Hallie Granley and Kaylee Whitten during a lesson on panning for gold, ...