In 1850, California became the 31st state after much debate due to its wealth. Gold Rush's richest miner, Tony Beets, has been named as the world's wealthiest miner. By a very wide margin, Tony Beets ...

As Briggs' agricultural business turned a profit in the early 1850s, other miners-turned-farmers cleared and planted the bottomland along California's rivers to grow vegetables, barley and dairy.

Among the earliest examples of Australian gold rush jewellery are the simple signet rings sold to miners in the settlement of Ballarat in the 1850s as a memento of the boomtown days.

Stories about Chinese miners during Australia’s famous gold rush of the 1850s are often told from a Western perspective. The SBS drama series New Gold Mountain flips the script by shining a ...