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 ...

A miner was successfully located and rescued from Butte County on Saturday after getting lost near the Middle Fork of 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 ...

Just 8 miles from that first discovery site in Coloma, Placerville has another distinction: It’s the only city in all of California ... gold rush.” In fact, even in the days when the mines ...

The rock daisy, already listed as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act, faces mounting threats from gold mining in its region. “A company determined to dig up the Inyo Mountains in ...