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The gold miners who made California famous were the rugged loners trying to shake nuggets loose from streams or hillsides. The ones who made the state rich were those who worked for big mining companies that blasted gold from an underground world of dust and darkness.

A meteorite that fell where California's gold rush began has triggered a similar gold rush for scientists: to study one of the freshest, most unusual space rocks around.

A substitute teacher from California was found to be the only heir to a fortune of gold coins discovered by a cleaning crew in the home of a reclusive cousin who quietly stashed away a treasure of more than $7 million before he died this year.

Bob Chapman : California will go Bankrupt !