While driving near an old ghost town in rural Western Australia, gold prospector and lawyer Nathan Ridout came across an ...

Nathan was driving home to Perth after spending a week hunting for gold at Yundamindra, an abandoned goldfields townsite ...

As record-high gold prices deliver windfall for Australia's mining sector, small investors and prospectors are also hitting pay dirt.

A Far North gold prospector who says most people won’t believe him, has a launched a campaign to sell his exploration lease ...

Gold prospectors are being locked out of some fossicking areas by a new law that allows mining companies with pending leases ...

A task that brought people from far and wide to certain parts of Australia in the 1800s could be making a comeback thanks to the price of gold skyrocketing in recent weeks. Gold panning can take hours ...