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

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

An Australian man has quite literally struck gold. LONDON -- An Australian man has quite literally struck gold. He discovered a rare gold nugget worth about 240,000 Australian dollars, or about ...

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

While driving near an old ghost town in rural Western Australia, gold prospector and lawyer Nathan Ridout came across an unusual sight on the roadside: a herd of ponies. "As I got closer I was looking ...

Australia’s Golden Triangle may be named for the abundance of its cereal grains, but since the 1800s, it’s been an equally fertile ground for gold prospectors. It was recently the site for a once-in-a ...

After years of gold prospecting, it took less than an hour for one Australian man to hear the glorious squeal of his metal detector in an outback field, alerting him to a gold nugget worth $9,000.

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 ...