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 ...