While digging a channel for a sawmill, he noticed gold nuggets in the water below him ... and fast track California to become a state in 1850. Learn how the California Gold Rush transformed ...

The Orr nugget, a thumb-size gold nugget found in Gold Canyon near present-day Dayton on June 1, 1850, by Mormon pioneer John Orr, led to Nevada's first gold rush and the eventual discovery of silver ...

Miners extracted about 28 million ounces of gold from 1850 to 1859, which would be worth ... You can see the whole map here. The Fricot Nugget, right, is one of the rare crystallized gold ...

And by “they,” Milas means the settlers that rushed into the area to make their fortunes on gold nuggets in the 1850s ... to get as much as they could.” And 1850 was, of course, a time ...