For the people in the eastern DRC, small-scale gold mining is a key source of income. The workers risk their lives digging for the ore, which passes through many hands before it becomes a gleaming bar of pure gold. Back-breaking work...
TAKE a look inside Britain’s only gold mine which has five tonnes of the precious metal waiting to be recovered. Silver is also said to lie close to the mouth of the 1km long mine beneath Tyndrum’s hills in Scotland. Britain’s...
Melt Grade Gold Nuggets: The lowest grade of natural gold nuggets is called “melt grade” and melt grade nuggets are not very attractive. They will have dark host rock and/or dark mineralization and the color and nugget surface...
Turns out the most amazing gold nugget found in decades in the Sierra Nevada was a fake. Not fake gold, mind you. Just fake in that it was actually discovered in Australia – not on an amateur gold-hunter’s land in the foothills,...
One of the biggest gold nuggets ever found has been put up for sale in Dallas for $1million, 23 years after it was first discovered. The Alaska Centennial Gold Nugget, which weighs in at a staggering 21lbs, is over 90% gold and is...
There are some basic rules that should be at the forefront of your mind when detecting for gold, probably the most important one being to dig everything. No one can accurately determine if a signal is gold just by listening to the...
A lucky Aussie prospector has found a 4.1kg gold nugget at the far southern edge of Central Victoria’s Golden Triangle, in South Australia, which he has named “Friday’s Joy.” But the huge nugget was not the only one unearthed...
Leo Mathews has been searching for gold for the last 15 years. After a ‘drought’ of 15 months he finally struck gold in the form of a 25 ounce gold nugget he found while fossicking in the bushland north of Bendigo. Describing...
The Golden Eagle Nugget is believed to be the largest solid mass of gold ever found in Western Australia, and one of the largest nuggets ever found in the entire world. It was unearthed by a depression-era miner working in a very remote...
The nugget is the same size as a 20p piece but it’s worth a whole lot more The Canadian gold-panning enthusiast found the precious metal, worth around £10,000, earlier this week. The 20-carat nugget weighs around 18.1grams and...
A gold hunter had a stroke of luck after discovering Britain’s largest ever nugget The plucky explorer found the precious 85.7g [2.75 Troy ounces] lump while diving in a Scottish river and it is estimated to be worth upwards...
Kambalda, the place where Dole discovered the biggest gold nugget. The discovery led the miner to uncover yet more gold—exactly 40 stone (560lbs) of the precious metal worth £10million (USD 13,077,960). Dole’s first nugget weighing...
IF there are any flags in the little township of Moliagul, in Central Victoria, they should be flown from the house tops today. It was at Moliagul on February 5, 1869 — just three-quarters of a century ago to-day — that John Deason...
It is almost twice as heavy as the UK’s second biggest nugget, which was found in Cornwall Vincent Thurkettle, 60, was stunned to see the incredible 97.12g (3oz) nugget of gold gleaming in a crevice on the sea bed off the coast...
Gold nugget weighing 70 ounces found by an unidentified man in Butte County in California He was expecting to dig up a piece of iron rubbish, but unearthed the find of a lifetime when he unearthed this monster nugget. It is a spectacular...
The largest surviving gold nugget found it the western hemisphere is a breathtaking nugget named The Boot of Cortez. Just as the name implies, it is shaped like the boot of a Spanish conquistador. This outstanding find measures a stunning...
There isn’t a lot of information about this discovery of the gold nugget known as the Austrox Nugget. It was found somewhere in Western Australia, not by a major mining company, but by three small-scale prospectors using metal detectors. And...
The Homestake gold mine was the largest known iron-formation-hosted gold deposit and the largest gold producer from a single deposit outside of South Africa. The Homestake mine is located in the Whitewood mining district in Lead, Lawrence...
Prospecting is the stuff of legend and fantasy, and plenty of people dream about finding the precious metal synonymous with wealth. Gold prices are up around 15 per cent so far this year, making now a tempting time to have a crack...
A massive gold nugget worth at least $110,000 has been uncovered by a prospector in remote Western Australia. The retired man, who does not wish to be named to protect his identity, said he had been combing the same patch in the northern...
A lucky prospector has struck gold after unearthing a precious and rare find worth almost $100,000. The anonymous prospector couldn’t believe their good luck when their metal detector uncovered a whopping 1.4 kilogram nugget...
