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

Found it, and lost it. That morning’s find altered the destiny of California. The arriving hordes of the gold-fevered accelerated the decline and death of California’s Native peoples and the ...

said that only 10% to 15% of the gold in California has been found. Terry Prebalick, a gold hunter who has been working the land for decades, said he feels like the original miners only found ...

17, 2024 Found it, and lost it. That morning’s find altered the destiny of California. The arriving hordes of the gold-fevered accelerated the decline and death of California’s Native peoples ...

California's population consisted ... starvation and homicide during the gold rush. As the surface gold disappeared, individual miners found their dreams of cashing in on the gold rush growing ...

It is a story of grit and determination, set in the El Dorado Hills.  Back in 1848, what is described as a “flurry of humanity” took over the Coloma valley, because of gold.