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.

Despite soaring prices, Australia’s gold production has been on a downward trajectory; new projects and expansions mean the ...

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