Today, his son, Nick Prebalick owns and operates a tour company called California Gold Panning that allows tourists to try their luck at mining for gold. The business helps supplement the families ...

Gold mines in Ghana and Alaska, real estate deals in Southern California, Costa Rica and the Middle East. Leake’s pitches to investors were bold and exotic. He swept up six friends and mutual ...

Most of the male population of San Francisco had gone to the mines. The rest of California soon followed. That summer, men like Antonio Franco Coronel, of Los Angeles, dug for gold along side ...

The National Park Service and an Australian company are at odds over an old Mojave Desert gold mine, where the company is seeking to extract rare earth minerals.

It's a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is ...

Six years before the famed California Gold Rush of 1848, another discovery of gold had already taken place in Santa Clarita’s ...

Emergency crews in northern California rescued a 16-year-old boy who took a tumble down a 50-foot-deep mine shaft while exploring the side of a mountain. The teenage boy and his friends had poked ...

In Los Angeles this week a variety show with nine-plus lives and 21 acts was racing merrily toward its its 1,500th performance. As Blackouts of 1943 it was packing them into El Capitan Theater ...

“I encourage people to continue to get involved to protect our environment from the impacts of gold mining.” "I am extremely grateful ... This is a good reminder that California’s environmental ...

The gold mines became melting pots, as farmers from Oregon and businesspeople from New York mixed with prospectors from Mexico, Chile, Hawaii and China. Almost two centuries later, California ...

Most of the male population of San Francisco had gone to the mines. The rest of California soon followed. That summer, men like Antonio Franco Coronel, of Los Angeles, dug for gold along side ...