Todd Bracken, the master jeweler at Bracken Jewelers in Santa Monica, California, first fell in love with gold panning in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ben Mossman, chief executive of Rise Grass Valley, on the grounds of the closed Idaho-Maryland mine in Grass Valley, Calif.

An exhibition at the northern end of Cuyamaca Rancho State Park reports that, according to legend, William Skidmore ...

EL DORADO COUNTY – A dog has been rescued after it fell down an abandoned mine shaft in Northern California. Garden Valley Fire Protection District says, early in the morning on Nov. 21, first ...

Imagine hiking or biking through the desert or mountain area just to have the ground beneath your feet suddenly give way, sending you plummeting through a hole that could be a mile deep. That's what ...

ANTIOCH, Calif. -- Antioch's Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve offers visitors a unique opportunity to learn about California's rich mining history. "It's not often that you get to go to a park ...

(FOX40.COM) — Certain areas of Northern California are littered with abandoned mine shafts and one poor dog found themselves deep inside one in El Dorado County, according to the Garden Valley Fire ...

After gold was struck in California in 1848, thousands of people flocked to the Golden State in hopes of finding gold and striking it rich. Although initially mining was done in the Sierra Nevada ...

(FOX40.COM) — Two people were critically injured on Friday morning during a mine explosion in Placer County, according to the Foresthill Fire Protection District. The agency said the incident occurred ...

The Biden administration announced Wednesday the addition of a historic Northern California mine to the Superfund National Priorities List — a federal index that ranks hazardous waste site risk and ...