Investigators have been left scratching their heads as to why a treasure trove of gold coins was hidden in an old piano. The collection of 913 coins, declared as treasure by a coroner on Thursday, was found hidden beneath the instrument’s...
Gold nuggets are rare. I think most of us know that. And that is true regardless of their size. Even a small 1-gram gold nugget can be pretty hard to find. Many gold prospectors spend years before they ever find one. The thing...
This is the most incredible, 100% natural gold specimen we have ever had the privilege of offering from Arizona! This Monster gold & quartz specimen is most likely the largest piece of natural gold that has been unearthed in North...
Product Description Here is a really nice chunky nugget from Arizona. It weighs just over 2/3 of an ounce, at exactly 20.76 grams. It was found by a prospector in the San Domingo placers in Maricopa County, Arizona using a metal detector....
Always find time in your day to stop and eat a sandwich. That’s the lesson we learned when we sat with Utah coin dealer Robert Campbell so he could show us this impressive gold nugget that was discovered in a placer mine in the Huachuca...
A lucky family have struck gold – literally – after finding a $37,000 nugget while out on a Mother’s Day stroll. The father, who did not want to be named, said he, his two daughters and the family’s Pet dog...
An Aussie metal-detector enthusiast was sure he had discovered a piece of rubbish — possibly an old horseshoe — when his device signaled a sizable find in Central Victoria’s storied Golden Triangle last week. What he pulled from...
Gold discovered in Alabama has been mined from both placer and lode sources. The goldfields were primarily found in a gold belt covering an area of 60 miles wide and 100 miles long. The gold belt enters and trends the northeastern...
Apart from the privately owned mines (which are inaccessible to the average prospector), the state of Alaska is rife with smaller placer mines with many miners continuing the enterprise over several generations. Placer mining averages...
A nugget weighing 182 troy ounces was found at Anvil Creek near Nome back in 1903, and it was the largest nugget found in Alaska for nearly a century. There have been several documented discoveries of nuggets in Anvil Creek that weighed...
A SKINT dad found a lump of gold worth £20,000 while walking with his family and their dog called Lucky. He was walking on the outskirts of Bendigo, Australia, when his daughter stumbled across the nugget and asked: “Dad, is...
Archaeologists are studying a valuable trove of old Roman coins found on the site of a former theater in northern Italy. The coins, at least 300 of them, date back to the late Roman imperial era and were found in a soapstone jar unearthed...
Metal detectorist Buffy Bailey, 48, unearthed the piece which is just 1.5cm long while searching farmland near York with her husband Ian. Experts say the object is similar to the Middleham Jewel, a 15th century gold pendant that sold...
THE RAREST piece of gold in the world has been analysed by scientists and they will no longer reveal its price. Known as the Ram’s Horn, scientists have been reluctant to conduct tests on the precious wire gold artefact until...
Streams and river basins are some of the most popular places to find gold because over thousands, if not millions of years these waterways have cut into and eroded areas were gold deposits exist and have carries it downstream from...
Government experts have confirmed the world’s largest single crystal of gold. It is worth as estimated $1.5m, and was found in a river in Venezuela. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory used a neutron scanner to effectively...
This article will explain below how the first documented gold nugget was found in the United States. The discover eventually gave birth to the Reed Gold Mine in North Carolina. Some efforts to look for the gold in the Appalachian Mountains...
MIDLAND, N.C. — Less than an hour’s drive east of Charlotte, there’s a place that’ll make it feel like it’s still the gold rush. Reed Gold Mine is in Midland, North Carolina, and is where the first documented...
Scuba divers have uncovered the largest treasure trove ever discovered off Israel’s Mediterranean coast – but won’t get a penny. The group initially thought they had found a toy coin on the ocean floor before tests...
In 1799, a child fishing in a North Carolina creek found an enormous piece of gold that eventually sparked a big hunt for more Few things have captured the passions of people throughout History more than the search for gold. The ultimate...
The Crown Jewel is a massive leaf gold specimen from California. It weighs a huge 44 pounds, and is the largest crystalline gold structure in existence today. It is over three times larger than the famous Fricot Nugget. This gold nugget...
