Dip a pan in river silt, swish it around, snag a shiny nugget, get rich. Who hasn’t dreamed of finding gold in the hills, valleys and streams? For my age group, we watched white-bearded prospectors on ...

It may be hard to believe, but there are specks of gold waiting to be discovered in most area streams — the reason Dean Ransom of Milton has been gold prospecting for 13 years. "I've always been ...

Gold has risen to $4,000 an ounce right now. Here in Arizona, the price spike has led to an increase in prospecting club ...

It’s a Saturday in mid-August in northern Montana, about 45 minutes outside Helena in an area informally referred to as Magpie Gulch by locals. Dustin LeDoux stands in an ankle-deep stream, the ...

The largest hoard of gold coins from the British Iron Age, consisting of 933 pre-Roman coins, has been discovered in Essex.

CUDDEBACKVILLE – Want to go panning for gold? If so, you have to go no further than Orange County to be a prospector. The Tri-State chapter of the Gold Prospectors Association of America recently ...