Early California gold mining occurred at a time when the ounce price of gold in 1833 was $18.93 and peaked at a federal limit of around $35 an ounce. As of February 2024, the ounce price for gold ...

During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from some 150,000 to roughly 31,000, according to the International Indian Treaty Council.

In 1882, California passed the nation’s first environmental law, banning the dumping of mining debris into rivers. Remnants of the gold rush Other effects of the gold rush can still be seen ...

Forty-seven miners died in the the worst mining disaster in the history of California 100 years ago. On August 27, 1922 a fire broke out in the Argonaut gold mine near the city of Jackson in ...

The Gold Bug Mine is the only gold mine in California owned by a city. Julie Tremaine The gold rush might have ended over a century ago, but its ghosts are still all over the Sierra Nevada foothills.

While California has come a long way since the gold rush, many of its mining towns haven’t. In its 19th century heyday, Randsburg boasted a population of 3,500 with churches, saloons, hotels and ...