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 ...

A lithium gold rush is erupting beneath California's Salton Sea, where a $540 billion discovery could supercharge U.S. battery independence.