In the classic 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” an old gold prospector opines that the ...

The Fraser River has been a source of placer gold for more than 160 years and a meeting point for amateur treasure hunters ...

In India, many river names tend towards the mythical, the colour-based, or the regional, but geology-based nomenclature is ...

The gold rushes of the 19th century have long since ended, but there are still plenty of places you can hunt for the precious metal using a shovel, pan, metal detector, and more. In fact, recreational ...

A visit to Kasungu District on November 12 2025 found that several rivers, including Kambira and Dwangwa in Traditional Authority Simulemba had dried up due to illegal mining. The story of drying up ...

India is a land of many rivers. There are about 400 small and large rivers flowing across the country. These are divided into ...

Eric Bulinda and Bryson Ambani leads their colleagues in process of looking for deposits of gold in river Isiukhu on September 16, 2022. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard] The four energetic young men ...

"I am sure you thought he was standing on the river bed, but he wasn't. At this point, the river is intense. You might have noticed that the two guys in the river hardly move or change positions," ...