Gold and Precious Material

Pictures in the News | April 16, 2013

2013-04-16 08:14:15

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Investors run from gold as fears of inflation in U.S. ease

2013-04-15 08:34:00

Gold prices plunged to a two-year low as investors fled from precious metals. It was the second day of decline for gold as the economy improves and fears of inflation in the U.S. ease. Gold is often purchased as a hedge against inflation. The price of...

Gold loses luster among small investors amid sharp price drop

2013-04-16 00:00:00

Gold has lost some of its gleam among small investors who once saw it as a financial salvation. The precious metal suffered its sharpest price drop in three decades, as the frenzy that drove gold to fantastic heights in recent years reversed course with...

Deep in a former gold mine, scientists hunt for dark matter

2013-04-08 06:00:00

LEAD, S.D. — The scientists don hard hats, jumpsuits and steel-toed boots to pile into a metal cage for a rumbling 11-minute descent into an abandoned South Dakota gold mine. They step over old mine-cart rails, through rough-walled tunnels and...

John Livermore dies; geologist who found 'invisible gold' was 94

2013-03-02 17:56:00

John Livermore, an exploration geologist whose discovery of minuscule but highly valuable particles of "invisible gold" in Nevada in the early 1960s set off a modern-day gold rush in the state, has died. He was 94. Livermore died Feb. 7 at his Reno home...

Furry fishers, don't blame the Gold Rush

2013-03-08 05:00:00

The boom in logging and fur trapping triggered by Gold Rush settlement of the Sierra Nevada has long been blamed for the steep decline in California’s population of fishers. But a new study concludes that the small forest animal was in trouble...

Gold glitters less brightly, falling below $1,600

2013-02-15 11:41:00

Gold still glitters, but a bit less brightly as it fell below $1,600 on Friday for the first time in six months. In one of the contrarian ways of the financial markets, gold has weakened as evidence has mounted that the global economy is recovering....

Germany to bring home its gold by 2020

2013-01-16 12:35:00

BERLIN -- Germany's central bank announced Wednesday that it would reverse a decades-old policy of storing gold abroad and reclaim $36 billion of bullion from New York and Paris to ensure that half of the country's reserves were on home soil by 2020....

California: Yreka a gold mine of natural wonders

2012-12-02 00:00:00

YREKA, Calif. — Deep in Siskiyou County in far Northern California, high granite peaks and rocky streams have long incited gold miners, including my grandfather, who in the 1930s lived with his family — my grandmother, mother and aunt —...

$12,000 reward for Gold Rush-era jewel box stolen from museum

2013-01-09 14:43:54

Huell Howser memorial, sunset salute to be held at Griffith Observatory

2013-01-09 16:42:52

Jimmy Kimmel's move signals a prime time for late-night TV shuffle

2013-01-04 05:00:00

The noisy green room of Jimmy Kimmel's talk show in Hollywood was crawling with the show's thirtysomething writers, who stole occasional glances at the monitors as the 45-year-old comic joked with a woman in the studio audience. A few minutes later,...

A stack of gold bars stored at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The New York Fed is home to an estimated 23% of the world's gold reserves.

2013-02-19 12:12:33

Singer Mary J. Blige is 40 today.

2013-01-02 15:54:00

Global economic uncertainty and stock market turmoil left investors searching for safer assets. One of the most popular, as is typical when times are tough, was gold. The precious metal peaked in September at more than $1,900 an ounce.

2012-07-19 12:15:00