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 ...

A gold nugget worth an estimated $82,000 was stolen from a collectibles show earlier this week in Long Beach and police are seeking the public's help in locating the thief. It happened on Thursday ...

Scientists have discovered exactly how earthquakes trigger quartz into forming large gold nuggets — finally solving a mystery that's puzzled researchers for decades. "Gold forms in quartz all ...