Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Across the West, early miners digging for gold, silver and copper had no idea that one day something else very valuable would be buried ...

The court-ordered release of a trove of government photos, videos, maps and other documents involving the FBI’s secretive search for Civil War-era gold has a treasure hunter more convinced than ever ...

Five years ago, a big investment house like Merrill Lynch would have scarcely thought to mention gold. But in 2010, the yellow metal is a hot topic. A September report on gold from Merrill is much in ...

I’ve seen the gold standard blamed for a lot of things in my day—the busts of the 19 th century, the travails of the farmer back when, the Great Depression—but I’d never thought I’d see the blame for ...