Gold nuggets, historic maps, photographs, postcards and other artifacts help tell the story of Georgia’s antebellum gold rush – which preceded the frenzy in California by two decades – in an ...

It describes how the region’s Cherokee, especially those tribal members who had begun to mine gold themselves, were subjected to a campaign that began with fake news, quickly escalating into what ...

Pressure to open a gold mine on the site of an archaeological dig is dividing opinion in Georgia, the BBC's Rayhan Demytrie reports.

A new gold rush is taking place in Georgia's Caucasus Mountains, home to vast untapped reserves that are difficult to get at due to complex rock patterns.