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Picture taken at the Reed Gold Mine Historic Site.
This gold mine tour makes for a history-rich experience you'll never forget!
So, you want to search for gold ore. How do you identify good gold prospects? If your strategy involves crushing any and every rock you come across, you'll be crushing for the rest of your life and won't find a flake. Here are some simple field tests you can perform to help you narrow your search.
The Super Pit is the largest open-pit gold mine in Australia. A canyon-size hole populated by house-size trucks, it's large enough to be seen from orbit. Here's what it looks like up close.
An old gold mine entrance on the side of the road at Gaffneys Creek. This was part of the area in Victoria burnt during the 2006/2007 bush fire season.
If a pic of your crush, class friend, or one of the influencer divas looks too good to be true… you do the math. Because if there’s anything we know about pic-perfect shots on social media by now, it’s that a huge number of them are totally fake.
Travel 1,000 feet into a mountain on this amazing tour of Country Boy Mine near Denver and experience the sights and sounds miners did over 100 years ago!
Many flocked to California in hopes of striking gold and getting rich during the late 1840s after James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill. The rush ended in 1864, but gold panning lives on as a family-friendly vacation option. Throughout the U.S., gold mines that once attracted those seeking to make a quick ...
PHOTOS: Rediscovering A Lost World
In the mid-2000s, historian Anna Pegler-Gordon said that visual media often seems more accessible to her students than the written record. They claimed images make the past seem more accessible, giving concrete shape to a world that sometimes seems intangible. Not to mention the immediacy of the image, which often conveys information more quickly than a primary document written in an unfamiliar, or even a foreign, language. But according to Pegler-Gordon, this immediacy also works well in discussion sections, where the shared experience of viewing a picture can provide a focus for lively group discussion.
A lost town high in the mountains that was once the most prominent source for gold in the state.
Barkerville isn't any old museum. It's a living and breathing historical gold mining town and an absolute must see in British Columbia, Canada
This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.
Fire up your metal detector — there's a fortune in lost gold waiting to be found in Wyoming!
The more dirt you wash, the more gold you'll find. Here is a complete guide on what a sluice box is and how to use one to find more gold today!
Gold is not protecting holders from inflation. Mining companies are not exploding in value as a leveraged play on the price of gold, which is meant to transcend inflation. Why not?
The gold rushes attracted for the first time to New Zealand a significant group of non-European immigrants – the Chinese. Photographed in 1900 or 1901, this man was still cradling for gold over 30 years after his countrymen had first arrived.
It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.
In 1905, when the Andean photographer Martín Chambi was 14 years old, he traveled to northwestern Peru with his father, who had a job working in a gold mine there. At the time, there were no indigenous photographers in the country, and images of the Quechua people were mostly captured through the lenses of French and American photographers.
