More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

That $200 million in gold production from just two mines would account for two-thirds of the district’s total production of $300 million. Early California gold mining occurred at a time when the ...

In total, the region gave up maybe $8 million in gold over the years. In September 1897, The Times counted more than 3,000 mines in Southern California, some working, some not. One of them was the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When word of the gold first trickled 130 miles south to the port ... Most men had left their shops to work the mines and others throughout California soon followed. On the day of Marshall’s discovery, ...

Stockton's very history is indelibly tied to the Gold Rush. One hundred and seventy-seven ... Most men had left their shops to work the mines and others throughout California soon followed. On the day ...