The shiny yellow metal delivered blistering gains last year, but it's off to a volatile start to 2026.

Gold shattered records in 2025 and kept climbing. Here's what drove the historic rally and where prices stand now.

Gold is a shiny yellow metal that sells for a whopping $4,400 per ounce, but it isn't very useful, with very few industrial applications outside the jewelry industry. Instead, most of gold's demand ...

Before Oregon was known for timber, it was known for gold. That’s the underlying message of the new book “Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era.” Its author, ...