There are several places one can visit to try their hand looking for gold, with some people making a profession out of it. While finding a gold nugget at all is something to be celebrated, one man hit the jackpot years ago. Now, the...
Brent Shannon and Ethan West found the nuggets while on TV show Aussie Gold Hunters 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...
Very few of Nevada’s gold mines produce crystalline gold. One HUGE exception is a famous mine in central Nevada. The Round Mountain Gold Mine is one of the largest mining operations in the United States. It is a massive open-pit...
Montana may not get as much attention as some other states when it comes to gold mining, but that does not mean there isn’t gold here. In fact there has been millions of dollars in gold found here. One of the biggest gold nuggets...
A $50,000 gold nugget has been found in the glovebox of a car in Western Australia’s remote northern Wheatbelt. Don Bell, 83, thought he had lost his valuable gold when he left it on the top of the boot of his car. Police put...
The 6.07-pound gold Butte Nugget sold Friday for an undisclosed amount of money to a secret buyer. Photo taken by David McCarthy. Just one day after it was unveiled to awed crowds in San Francisco, the whopping ‘Butte Nugget’...
Mr. Espinoza shows off the gold nugget he found in the Central California foothills. A man who turned gold panning into a profession hit pay dirt in Tuolumne County last week. An online video shows a man by the name of Mr. Espinoza...
Gold is always worth its weight in, well, itself. Sometimes, it’s worth even more. A gold nugget, weighing 100 troy ounces, sold at auction in Sacremento for $400,000 Wednesday night. “We valued it at around $200,000,”...
A giant gold nugget weighing more than 6 pounds, the Butte Nugget is expected to carry a price tag of $350,000. One of the biggest gold nuggets found in modern times in Northern California’s historic Gold Country is going up...
Roman Coins: The Italian Minister for Culture disclosed a fascinating archeological discovery near Como, Italy, to the north of Milan, in September 2020. Scientists later determined that the object that construction workers initially...
A California couple who found a $10 million trove of buried gold coins may not have been that lucky after all. The coins were likely stolen from the US Mint in 1900, according to a published source, and are thus government property. According...
Prospectors and exploration companies seeking to strike it rich have been re-energised by the discovery of rare gold specimens at a mine in outback Western Australia. Geologists Lachlan Kenna and Zaf Thanos with the gold that made...
Two miners have struck gold at their Dunolly mine site with the discovery of a nugget worth over $200,000. Neville Perry and Mick Clark discovered the 2.5 kilogram gold nugget in October last year while filming for the television program...
During Australia’s gold rush, finding a big gold nugget was easier than it is today (although it was still not an easy task.) Even in the famous goldfields of Australia, many prospectors had a hard time finding paying concentrations...
Gold nuggets. By definition, gold nuggets are gold pieces which occur naturally. The nuggets come in different purity levels, but most have purities close to that seen in pure refined gold (generally between 83% and 92% purity). The...
Illustrative image of a gold nugget. A retired man in Western Australia discovered a gold nugget worth $AU110,000 ($80,000) while prospecting. Aretired man prospecting for gold in a remote part of Australia has struck it rich after...
Gold Mines of Wales (GMOW) have released plans to reopen Clogau mine in the Snowdonia National Park, where gold deposits were discovered. Meanwhile, Erris Resources, a mineral consulting and exploration company, has raised £330,000...
Excited treasure hunters are flocking to a UK beach after a 60-year-old man found part of a £120million treasure haul. Vincent Thurkettle was stunned to find the incredible 97.12g nugget of gold worth £50,000 – about the size...
The “world’s thinnest gold” is one million times thinner than a fingernail – and is so thin, it’s technically regarded as “two dimensional”. This image shows a gold “nanosheet” that...
Some exceptional crystalline gold specimens have been mined in Colorado. It is one of the richest mining states in the USA, abundant in both silver and gold. Breckenridge is probably the most famous for its crystalline gold. Early...
The majority of gold production in Oregon has come from a gold belt that spans approximately 50 miles wide and 100 miles long and includes the Blue Mountains in the northeastern part of the state. Most gold production has come from...