The Salton Sea, California’s largest lake, has long been a subject of fascination and concern due to its environmental ...

Bargain desert properties are being snapped up due to the 'billions' in untapped gold that ... a small mining town in the Rand Mountains mining district, located in California's Mojave Desert ...

Antioch's Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve offers visitors a unique opportunity to learn about California's rich mining ... silica sand that is not found in the common beach sand in the ...

Gold was discovered in 1848 in the American River near Coloma, about an hour away from Sacramento, igniting the Gold Rush. And even though hundreds of thousands of pounds were extracted from ...

In a victory for the Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe and their conservation and environmental justice allies, the Imperial County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday rejected the SMP Gold Corp ... approvals under ...

which is threatened by gold mining. “What’s more valuable than gold? Protecting life from extinction,” said Nick Jensen, conservation program director at the California Native Plant Society. “We are ...

The Golden State Mine shafts in the Randsburg Mining District. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848 is one of the defining moments in California history, with roughly 300,000 forty ...