7.7K views · 145 reactions | Turbo gets excited when he finds tiny yellow flakes hidden in the bedrock. Has he hit the mother lode or is it just fool's gold? | Yukon Gold | Facebook

10K views · 563 reactions | Winter is the dominant season in the Yukon, lasting from October through March. Once the ground starts to thaw, the gold mining season begins, usually starting in early May and lasting through the end of September. Watch the miners of #GoldRush kick off their mining season tonight at 8p ET. | Discovery | Facebook

Relive the tumultuous days of gold’s discovery in British Columbia’s Fraser Canyon. Travel back to 1858 and meet some of the tens of thousands of fortune-seeking prospectors who dreamed of astonishing finds. Find out how the gold rush attracted thousands of miners and entrepreneurs of various social and ethnic origins and forever transformed this once-remote region of the Pacific North West. See Gold Rush – El Dorado in British Columbia at the Canadian Museum of History before January 15, 2017.