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Family Sues US Mint for Return of Rare Gold Coins

In a federal lawsuit, a family claims the US Mint illegally seized 10 gold coins that the family had found among a dead relative’s possessions.

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Gold Deposits of North Carolina


North Carolina was the site of the first well documented discovery of gold in the United States, which occurred in 1799. Not many years later, when the importance of this find was realized, gold miners came to seek their fortunes.

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Picks & Pans: Family's Identity Forged Working Nevada's Gold


My mother stands in the desert, a hot wind kicking up puffs in the sand around her feet. She’s staring hard at the rusted buckets, weathered boards and mine shafts scattered throughout the sagebrush, concentrating, and I can tell she’s not really here. Not here now, at least. She is here 65 years ago. And this is not a long-abandoned ghost town at the end of a dirt road in one of Nevada’s endless stretches of nowhere.

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Sierra County Gold—Part I


...this county contained some of the richest placer ground found in all of California and still produces some pretty impressive finds to this day.

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