Historically, prospectors found giant gold nuggets in California during the 19th century Gold Rush days, including a 54-pound chunk found in Butte County in 1859. It has been decades since a ...

Historically, prospectors found giant gold nuggets in California during the 19th century Gold Rush days, including a 54-pound chunk found in Butte County in 1859. It has been decades since a ...

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PARADISE >&GT ... 12 inches down in the soil, he found the nugget. Van Camp says the Butte Nugget is the second largest extant placer gold nugget in California. The biggest nugget is the ...

Here we go again — what is believed to be the biggest gold nugget found in modern times in California’s historic Gold Country is going on sale Thursday in San Francisco. This 6.07-pound ...

It fetched $400,000 at auction. California Historical Landmark 771 marks what is believed to be the first large gold nugget found in California, a chunk weighing 54 pounds, in Butte County in 1859.

A massive gold nugget found this summer in Northern California is expected to carry a $350,000 minimum price tag when it is sold Thursday at the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show. Known as the ...

SAN FRANCISCO – One of the biggest gold nuggets found in modern times in Northern California's historic Gold Country is going up for sale. Weighing in at more than 6 pounds, the so-called "Butte ...

This nugget was discovered during California's gold rush in a creek about 50 miles from the Oregon border. Campbell said that many of the nuggets found from that time "are melted. So to find a big ...

Some 150 years after the forty-niners rushed west in search of riches, a new gold discovery in the ... of any similar 100-ounce placer nugget being found in California in recent decades.

Ed Allen, a historian at the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, said that only 10% to 15% of the gold in California has been found ... out a 3 ½-ounce gold nugget from the nearby ...