The largest gold nugget discovered in America was suitably named the Monumental. Weighing in at between 1,648 (46.7kg) and ...

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An amateur gold digger has found an enormous gold nugget worth 240,000 AUD ($160,000) in Australia. Discovered in the state of Victoria in an area known as the “Golden Triangle,” the gold-filled rock ...

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 ...

The rock had been sitting in Australia for hundreds of years until David Hole came across it while digging for gold.

In 1869, a discovery in Australia set a world record that still stands today. A pair of Cornish miners unearthed a gold nugget so massive it weighed more than an adult man.The find was so ...

Gold diggers in southern Australia have found two huge nuggets worth $350,000 AUD ($250,000 USD) in historic goldfields. The pair of nuggets weigh in at a combined 3.5 kilograms (7.7 pounds) and were ...

An amateur gold prospector stumbles upon a rock containing kilos of gold in Victoria thanks to a cheap detector.

A man has unearthed a gold nugget weighing 5 kilograms. The amateur prospector, who wishes to remain anonymous, made his discovery using a handheld metal detector outside of the town of Ballarat, 65 ...

David Hole thought he had found a giant gold nugget but what he discovered turned out to be even more astonishing ...

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 ...

The lucky prospector said: "oh wow, the wife's going to be happy with that" An Australian man using a budget metal detector has hit the score of a lifetime – a giant gold nugget worth $160,000. The ...