OROVILLE — Looking very unlike their 1850s gold rush counterparts, three men clad in heavy wetsuits braved the cold Feather River this week in search of gold. Eureka! They found it. Quite a b… ...

Gold is being deposited into the river from the Greenhorn Mountains and the Piutes heading into Hart Park. 23ABC's Adam Bowles went on an adventure to see if he could find this amazing treasure.

The first step is finding the right spot in the river where the gold might collect, such as a crook in the bedrock, idle pools, log jams, inside corners of rivers or spaces between boulders.

Across the U.S., people still pull real gold from rivers, streams, and old mining sites simply with a shovel and a gold pan. While massive fortunes are rare, hobbyists regularly find flakes, dust, and ...

The Fraser River has been a source of placer gold for more than 160 years and a meeting point for amateur treasure hunters ever since.

Harmony Gold Mining Co. and White Rivers Exploration (Pty) Ltd. said they found a major gold deposit in South Africa’s Free State that could lead to one of the country’s first new mines for ...

OROVILLE — Looking very unlike their 1850s gold rush counterparts, three men clad in heavy wetsuits braved the cold Feather River this week in search of gold. Eureka! They found it. Quite a b… ...

HOW TO STRIKE GOLD The first step is finding the right spot in the river where the gold might collect, such as a crook in the bedrock, idle pools, log jams, inside corners of rivers or spaces ...

In this Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, photo, Chris Hall shows off a vile of gold he's mined from the Wild Ammonoosuc River in Bath, N.H. A new generation of gold miners is giving prospecting a try ...