This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BALLARAT, Australia — An amateur gold ...

The Golden Beauty was found in 1979 and is close to 7.5 inches wide. The shiny behemoth known as the “Golden Beauty” was found in 1979 the Kalgoorlie Goldfields in Western Australia by John and ...

A potentially record-breaking gold nugget has been put up for auction after being discovered in Shropshire, England, by a prospector hampered by malfunctioning equipment. The 64.8 gram nugget, which ...

On a cool morning, a man left his campsite and slipped into an Otago river. Wearing a wetsuit and snorkel, he was hoping to find a few flakes of gold. But within minutes, he surfaced with something ...

A treasure hunter struggling with faulty equipment has unearthed a gold nugget believed to be the largest ever found in England. Richard Brock discovered the gold nugget, weighing 64.8 grams (2.3 ...

Electric currents in the Earth may be responsible for the formation of gold nuggets, new research suggests. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the theory could ...

Matt James has collected gold nuggets for years from the hills and riverbeds of California, but as the precious metal's price ...

Contrary to what most people assume, the gold rush didn’t end in the 1800s. Across the U.S., people still pull real gold from rivers, streams, and old mining sites simply with a shovel and a gold pan.

When strained by earthquakes, underground networks of quartz veins can generate enough voltage to snatch gold from passing fluids, researchers report September 2 in Nature Geoscience. The findings ...