With dredging weather finally here, it’s time to get back in the creek and start pulling gold again. This video captures the excitement of prospecting season, showcasing dredge setup, creek conditions ...

Police from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border ...

Cold air can turn gold prospecting into a serious endurance test. This lighthearted but honest look explores how freezing conditions affect prospecting efforts, from stiff tools to numb fingers—and ...

Minneapolis — In the classic 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” an old gold prospector opines that the precious metal is valuable because an ounce represents the sweat and ...

Before Oregon was known for timber, it was known for gold. That’s the underlying message of the new book “Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era.” Its author, ...