A San Francisco treasure hunter dug up a hidden chest of booty after a mysterious group posted a cryptic treasure map online.

said that only 10% to 15% of the gold in California has been found. Terry Prebalick, a gold hunter who has been working the land for decades, said he feels like the original miners only found ...

An astounding amount of gold was pulled from the ground during the California gold rush. In 1852 the take for the year was $80 million ($1.9 billion in 2005 dollars). This map shows some of the ...

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California ... during the gold rush. As the surface gold disappeared, individual miners found their dreams of ...