Earlier in March the price of gold per ounce finally broke through $3,000. Economic worries are driving investors to buy in, with many looking to hedge against inflation. While gold can be a smart ...

Follow Imaru Casanova deep underground with shares in mining companies. They're a leveraged bet, so they’re riskier than gold bars. In 1991 Imaru Casanova, age 16, won a foreign-studies scholarship, ...

The moment gold investors eagerly anticipated finally came to fruition on Tuesday when the price of the precious metal rose past $4,000 per ounce, a record high. That came on the heels of numerous ...

Gold hit a record high this week as investors placed bets on future rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. The commodity shot past $3,700 an ounce on Tuesday, Sept. 16, up from roughly $2,300 this time ...

It’s been more than 170 years since California’s Gold Rush — but locals are once again finding gold dust, flakes and even ...

Gold has always been a hot commodity. But these days, finding a nugget isn’t too tricky: Much of the world’s gold is mined from natural veins of quartz, a glassy mineral that streaks through large ...