Dip a pan in river silt, swish it around, snag a shiny nugget, get rich. Who hasn’t dreamed of finding gold in the hills, valleys and streams? For my age group, we watched white-bearded prospectors on ...

Prospecting for gold is as much about the journey as it is about getting rich. At least that’s the stance of local gold-hunting hobbyists, many whom belong to the Yakima Prospectors Association. While ...

Deep in the outback, under skies hued with a kaleidoscope of pinks and oranges, the peace, natural beauty and occasional precious nugget are a goldmine – on many levels – for the likes of James ...

Ezra, my 11-year-old son, and I clung to a thin rope as we scrambled down a steep, rocky hillside into a narrow river canyon. Using the rope, shovels and our muddy boots to slow our descent through ...

Plínio, an experienced pilot, is the only person who made us feel safe, and he accompanies us to the landing runway and introduces us to about 10 gold prospectors who arrive at the back of an old ...

In the classic 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” an old gold prospector opines that the precious metal is valuable because an ounce represents the sweat and heartbreak of ...

Armed with metal detectors and clad in broad-brimmed hats, each winter a legion of prospectors set off in search of fortune in the West Australian desert. People have prospected for gold around ...