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Monday, 19th May 2008 (1412 views)

Thousands of Americans are taking leaf out of the history books and heading to California as part of a new gold rush, it has been claimed.

Many Americans are travelling to the hills of California as they did 150 years ago, the Daily Telegraph reports.

Improvements in technology have allowed some prospectors to find gold that was missed by earlier efforts.

Walt Eason, of the Gold Prospectors Association of America, said there is a lot of excitement among those hunting for gold.

"It used to be that you might find $2,000 or $3,000 of gold after a week's work. Now it's possible that that figure could be $15,000 to $20,000."

In 1848, 300,000 men, women and children travelled to California in search of gold after its discovery at Sutter's Mill in Coloma.

 

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