AUBURN — A 15-year-old boy was rescued from a Northern California mine shaft, officials said Monday. It happened in the Placer County city of Auburn near China Bar in the Auburn State Recreation Area, ...

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 ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, fueling Stockton's rapid growth, many are still digging for riches all over California.

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 ...

LOS ANGELES— A Canadian mining company has announced it’s suspending a proposal to expand gold mining exploration and road building on California’s Conglomerate Mesa after the U.S. Bureau of Land ...

along with their gold mine, stamp mill and hotel. Kids can learn about ways people would strive to acquire riches during the California Gold Rush, such as providing lodging and supplies to miners.

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 ...

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 ...