Gold Rush

WATCH: Mom Finds Meteorite Worth Thousands

The Huffington Post | Emily Cohn | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Brenda Salveson, Gold County California, Meteorite, Video, Gold Rush, Modern Day Gold Rush, Lotus California, Space Rocks, Meteorites California, Meteor Explosion, California-Meteorite, Meteor Shower, Money News

A stay-at-home mom from the aptly named El Dorado County in California recently stumbled on something far more precious than gold. Brenda Salveson...

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Shark Week Is Officially Headed Back To TV

Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Mythbusters, Discovery Channel Shark Week, Video, Shark Week, Gold Rush, Discovery Channel, Amelia Earhart, Moonshiners, Osama a History, TV News

Discovery Channel has just announced its 2012-2013 slate, and "Shark Week" is back for another run, promising to be even more exciting than last year'...

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'American Digger' Premiere: Ric Savage Digs For Buried Treasure In Alaska

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Canada Tv, Reality TV, Ric Savage, Gold Rush, American Digger, Spike TV, Spike, Alaska, Treasure Hunting, Tv Replay, Series Premiere, Auctions, TV News

The series premiere of Spike's new show "American Digger" (Wed., 10 p.m. ET on Spike) saw the return to television of former pro wrestler "Heavy Metal...

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Impressive Dollar Amount Achieved On 'Gold Rush Alaska'

Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Reality TV, Video, Gold Rush, Gold Mining, Jack Hoffman, Discovery, Gold Rush Alaska, Tv Replay, TV News

With work still ongoing, the boys of "Gold Rush" (Fri., 8 p.m. EST on Discovery) are starting to see both their fortunes and their moods improve. Aft...

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Did 'Gold Rush Alaska' Crew Mine Enough To Turn Profitable?

Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Reality TV, Canada Tv, Video, Gold Mining, Discovery Channel, Gold Rush, Alaska, Tv Replay, Prospecting, TV News

With running costs of $1,000 per day, Fred Hurt and his crew at Porcupine Creek will only start turning a profit once they extract at least 50 ounces ...

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Gold Nuggets Worth Millions Stolen From Northern California Courthouse

AP | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Yreka Gold Nugget Theft, California Gold Theft, Yreka Gold Nuggets, Gold Rush, Yreka Ca Gold, Yreka Gold Heist, Yreka Ca Gold Theft, Yreka Gold Theft, Yreka Courthouse Gold, San Francisco News

YREKA, Calif. — Investigators in a far Northern California town sought leads Thursday in the theft of large chunks of gold from the county court...

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Why Interest In Alaskan Gold Mining Has Surged

AP | By BECKY BOHRER | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Gold Prices, Department of Natural Resources, Video, Gold Mining, Discovery Channel, Gold Rush, Snow Shoeing, Anchorage, The Pebble Prospect, Alaska, Business News

JUNEAU, Alaska -- Interest in gold mining in Alaska has surged, buoyed by high gold prices and the lure of a landscape that remains relatively unexplo...

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Gold, Booze And Tourists: Mazatlan's Plazuela Machado

Bob Schulman | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Belmar Hotel, Gold Rush, Plaza Machado, Prohibition, Travel to Mexico, Mazatlan, Mexico, Mexico Travel, Travel News

Ships packed with 49ers often stopped at Mazatlan to let the lads enjoy a little R

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Mini-Gold Rush To The Southeast

Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: 2011 Gold Rush, Video, Gold Kershaw, Romarco Mineral, Gold South Carolina, Gold Rush, Charleston, South Carolina, Haile Gold Man, Kershaw, Business News

CHARLESTON, South Carolina - (Harriet McLeod) - A Canadian mining company and a tiny South Carolina town are leading what could be a modern gold r...

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Is Gold The Next Bubble?

AP | By SARAH DiLORENZO | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: American Gold Rush, Gold, Financial Crisis, Gold Prices Rise, Gold Prices, Price of Gold, Gold Rush, Home News

NEW YORK -- For what is normally a sleepy month, there are so many customers at the Gold Standard, a New York company that buys jewelry, that it feels...

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San Francisco at 50

Michael Yaki | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Sfo, Homelessness, Board of Supervisors, San Francisco, Gold Rush, Civil Rights, Summer of Love, Yerba Buena, San Francisco News

If you asked a thousand residents what defines San Francisco, they probably wouldn't agree. But I would say we are restless, inventive, and maddeningly maddening about anything and everything.

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Gold Hits Records High, Americans Sell Their Treasures

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Gold Prices, California, Cash for Gold, Small Towns, The Economy, Gold, Georgia, Sell Gold, Gold Rush, Connecticut, California Gold Rush, Patch, Business News

This story was reported in collaboration with our partners at Patch.com. It was a rainy afternoon in January of 1848 when a builder named James Mar...

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Saving The Bay (It's The Ecology, Stupid!)

George Heymont | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Kaiser Shipyards, Ron Blatman, Film, Saving the Bay, Gold Rush, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Kit Tyler, Miles Saunders, Golden Gate Bridge, PBS., Earth Week, San Francisco Bay, Lake Merritt, Robert Redford, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Environmentalism, Ecology, Arts News

When I first saw Stanley Kramer's 1959 movie, On The Beach, I was living on the East Coast and had no idea what San Francisco looked like. However, a ...

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Sarah Jessica Parker: Who Do You Think You Are?

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Sex and the City, Massachusetts, Nbc, California, Sarah Jessica Parker, Witch Hunt, History, Twins, Who Do You Think You Are?, Gold Rush, Jewish, Ohio, Genealogy, German, Family History, Matthew Broderick, Entertainment News

Sarah Jessica Parker is the most intriguing of paradoxes. Best known as sophisticated fashionista Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City, she somehow manages to also embody the girl next door.

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What Makes San Francisco San Francisco?

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prostitution, Gold Rush, Left Coast, San Francisco Values, California, Miners, Barbary Coast, San Francisco, Northern California, San Francisco-California, Politics News

With all the hullaballoo about "San Francisco Values," I decided to add some facts to the subject. The people of San Francisco are true settlers of this country and helped to build America to what it is today.

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How to Buck Up: Mumble. Grumble. Complain. Wallow. Hope. Despair. Worry. Vote.

Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Wisconsin, California, Youth, Youth Vote, Calaveras County, Jobs, Student Loans, Young Democrats of Amerca, Paul Wellstone, Veterans, Forest Fires, Vote, Deep Fried Oreos, Gold Rush, Buck Up, Speaker Pelosi, Gotv, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, New Business, Healthcare Reform, Rod Snyder, Yda, Oktoberfest, Russ Feingold, Lgbt, Steve Kagan, Ami Bera, Tom Barrett, Third World America, Mumble Grumble Complain Wallow Hope Despair Worry Vote, Politics News

Democrats all across America are having an open tent discussion about our values and priorities. President Obama urges us to "buck up" -- and well we should. Let me tell you how I did.

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$100,000 Bill, Rare Coins High Light Boston's World's Fair Of Money (PHOTO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: $20 Gold Coin, 000 Bill, Vintage Coins, Smithsonian Institute, World's Fair of Money, Gold Rush, Rare Money, Boston's Money Fair, Currency, $100, Business News

BOSTON, AP -- In an economic downturn, it might be tough to get your head around this: rare sheets of $100,000 bills, fabulous gold treasures dating b...

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Australia Mining Pit, Visible From Space, Threatens To Swallow Town

GlobalPost | Kathy Marks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barrick Gold, Boom Town, Kalgoorie, Western Australia, Australian Desert, Golden Mile, Australia, Gold Mining, Gold Rush, Mining, Perth, Super Pit, World News

More than a century on, the "Golden Mile" is still yielding riches, mainly from the so-called Super Pit, an enormous open-cut mine created from scores...

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Gold Rush on the Moon

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nasa, Moon, Gold Rush, Lunar, Water-on-Moon, Google Lunar X Prize, Technology News

From an economic point of view, water on the Moon is the equivalent of finding "gold in the hills of California." There is the potential for a California gold rush to hit the space community in the years ahead.

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Jobless Turn To Prospecting For Gold

washingtonpost.com | Karl Vick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployed, Gold Rush, Jobless, Gold Prices, Gold Prospecting, Precious Metals, Business News

COLUMBIA, Calif. -- Maybe it was the nail in Ray's head. Maybe it was the economy. His wife said one as much as the other drove the decision to auctio...

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Gold Is The Hot New Commodity

Wall Street Journal | E.S. Browning | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gold Prices, Gold, Gold Rush, Business News

The new gold rush is on. As inflation has picked up and the stock market has tumbled, investors seeking a safe haven have piled into gold, driving th...

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