Recreational gold panning never faded — an estimated 100,000 or more active prospectors still work American streams regularly. Certain rivers across California, North Carolina, and South Dakota ...

One morning this past January, I set out in a rental car on the road to El Dorado—not the mythical city deep in the Amazon whose legendary riches lured legions of men to gruesome ends but the county ...

Contrary to what most people assume, the gold rush didn't end in the 1800s. Across the U.S., people still pull real gold from rivers, streams, and old mining sites simply with a shovel and a gold pan.