BATTLE GROUND — There’s gold in them thar hills of Southwest Washington. And in our rivers and on our beaches, too. You just have to know how and where to look for it. Several times a month, members ...

BATTLE GROUND, Wash. – There’s gold in them thar hills of Southwest Washington. And in our rivers and on our beaches, too. You just have to know how and where to look for it. Several times a month, ...

Long before gold reached nearly $2,000 an ounce and reality television shows such as “Gold Rush: Alaska” became huge hits, there was the Temecula Valley Prospectors. The group, which formed in 2001, ...

BLEWETT PASS — The two men stepping out of the pickup truck were rough-looking fellows. One of them wore a sidearm pistol, and the second was missing a front tooth and held a spade with a ...

Feb. 12—Clifton Greuter has started a Metal Detecting and Prospecting Club for those who want to prospect together and/or use metal detectors and look for treasures. Beginners and experienced alike ...

Everyone knows the story of gold mining in Colorado — fortune-hunting ruffians working claims with pickaxes, guarding them with pistols and throwing back whiskey in mud-splattered mountain towns that ...

Five years ago, when his teenage son was getting into trouble, Richard Hanson decided hunting for gold would be something they could do together. "I thought he was nuts, quite frankly," said Brian ...

Herbie Herbert steers down the road, head swiveling, eyes peeled. Just past where Scottsdale's plazas and office parks give way to desert, he sees something in a dry wash."There's a spot," he says.

“I also started a prospecting club here around the same time, and that went on for probably eight years. We’d meet once a month at the community center and have an outing when we could,” added ...

Steve Herschbach has been a treasure hunter virtually all his life. Born and raised in Alaska, he was still in his single-digit years when his father took him gold panning for the first time. "I was ...