READING, April 24.--The village of Myers town, about 20 miles west of here, has become considerably excited over the gold mining operations of the firm of Dr. Kreitzer Co., of Philadelphia, which ...

Authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body was found at the edge of a western Pennsylvania creek after he went panning for gold. Officials say 33-year-old Jeremy Potcnak, of Ford ...

In Pennsylvania, there's no public land to prospect. ... He has been with the Department for 38 years and has overseen programs such as the gold panning seminar and Christmas Magic.

Jeremy Potocnak, 33, set out to pan for gold in Armstrong County this weekend, and he never made it back. His brother found his dead body Monday, but even an autopsy has been inconclusive thus far ...

A western Pennsylvania coroner says an autopsy was inconclusive in determining what caused the death of a man who was found dead at the edge of a creek after he went panning for gold.. Armstrong ...

“There is no gold vein in southeast Pennsylvania,’’ he explained. “It’s all very finely disseminated throughout the rock.’’ That rock is largely igneous and diabase, he said.

The two cousins are panning for gold at the Cotton Patch Gold Mine in the heart of the nation's oldest gold-mining country. "It's cool. You never know what you're going to find," says Nate, 12.