Roaring Camp Mining Co. offers guided all-day gold-panning tours ($40) Sunday through Friday from May through September, and Saturday Night Cookouts ($50) that run from 5 to 10 p.m. The camp is ...

Breckenridge History’s gold panning at Lomax Gulch, which costs $20 for adults and $10 for kids, acts as a time machine for visitors to be transported back to the 1800s.

Six tiny flakes of gold in one pan of pay dirt are a nice haul. Panning for gold takes patience and a bit of reckless abandon ...

The Vic's Gold Panning listings that can be discovered at 199 Black Hawk St, Black Hawk, CO 80422, through multiple map applications will not lead those interested to the correct location. _____ ...

What You'll See: If you're panning around Gold Creek, you'll see plenty of photogenic ruins from the area's gold rush days. Mining put Telluride on the map in 1875 long before it became a skiing ...

As the price of gold heads north, so does the interest in prospecting. At about $1,500 an ounce, interest in prospecting in Wyoming has rarely been this high since the last rush in the 1930s.

Forty-something years ago, Earle was a geologist helping to survey the South Pass for new state of Wyoming geological maps. After long hours of summer field work, she’d spend some time panning ...