Two gold nuggets worth around A$350,000 (£190,000; US$250,000) have been discovered by a pair of diggers in southern Australia. Brent Shannon and Ethan West found the nuggets near goldmining town ...

An Australian man has unearthed a 1.4kg (49oz) gold nugget with a metal detector while wandering Western Australia's gold fields, say locals. A shop in Kalgoorlie shared pictures of the rock ...

He took it home and tried everything to open it, sure that there was a gold nugget inside the rock – after all, Maryborough is in the Goldfields region, where the Australian gold rush peaked in ...

Mr. Birkmyre says: “The gold of this nugget, from the crucible assays, I found to be 98'C6 per cent of pure gold. It thus contains only 1-75th of alloy, composed chiefly of silver and iron.

During the Australian gold rush, the world’s largest nugget was found by miners originating from the UK. On 5 February 1869, ...

Trainer Matt Dunn is not prone to hyperbole so when he says he has a two-year-old colt who can win the Gold Coast Magic ...

The unearthing of the large gold nugget follows a suite of discoveries in the area over the past month leaving prospectors hopeful for even bigger yields in the near future.

Gold prices surged in September, with the US dollar price rising from $2 499/oz (A$3 693) at the beginning of the month to $2 630/oz (A$3 794) by month’s end. The spot price continued its climb ...