Gold Rush Season 15 airs Fridays at 8/7c on Discovery. In Season 15, Episode 11 of Discovery Channel’s Gold Rush, Parker Schnabel intensifies his efforts to reach his ambitious 10,000-ounce gold ...

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 ...