which is found as very small flakes on riverbanks, gold-bearing rocks have to be dug out of the ground. We're after pure gold, but rock that contains gold also includes lots of other materials ...

Beecher’s Trilobite Bed is located just outside Rome, New York, and multiple species of fossilized trilobites, a prehistoric ...

So-called ‘alluvial’ gold is found as small yellow grains and flakes, or even small nuggets ... As it’s carried downstream, the gold-bearing rock is broken up into increasingly smaller ...

In that telling, in January 1848, carpenter James Marshall found flakes of gold while building a water ... including Sally ...

Tucked into 27 grassy acres just off Interstate 25 at the northern edge of Colorado Springs, the museum features hands-on exhibits including asimulated hard-rock mine ... involved in the endless quest ...

Gold isn't even the most expensive stuff on earth ...

One of the latest is the bread from Pan Piña, a bakery in Algatocín, a tiny village with just 800 residents in Málaga, where they bake 0.88-pound loaves that sell for 1,480 euros.   Why so expensive ...

Near a river in upstate New York (not pictured), a deceptive rock held something valuable ... you’ve struck it rich before the gold stones disappointingly flake apart in your hands.