As the name suggests, Prospecting! is an experience on the Roblox platform where you grab your pan and use your trusty tools ...

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 ...

DURANGO, Colo.—Bayfield resident Jim Kolb was laid off from his job as a machine serviceman three years ago—about the beginning of the financial crisis. Kolb, 65, said he was ready to retire anyway.

Just because we're long past the days of the 49ers and old-time prospectors, don't think mining for gold has been relegated to the dustbin of history. Interest in small-scale mining is booming, thanks ...

NEW LONDON, N.C. -- Ashley Michalak and Nate Neitz are dipping pans of dirt into a long wooden trough on a hot summer day. But these aren't ordinary pans, and it's not ordinary dirt. They're gold pans ...