When strained by earthquakes, underground networks of quartz veins can generate enough voltage to snatch gold from passing fluids, researchers report September 2 in Nature Geoscience. The findings ...

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 ...

It’s been more than 170 years since California’s Gold Rush — but locals are once again finding gold dust, flakes and even nuggets glittering in the state’s rivers. Thanks to Jeff Bezos, you can now ...

A treasure hunter struggling with faulty equipment has unearthed a gold nugget believed to be the largest ever found in England. Richard Brock discovered the gold nugget, weighing 64.8 grams (2.3 ...

We can't usually feel them, but dozens of earthquakes occur every day—and some of them are using mundane minerals to make glittering gold. Researchers have found that tectonic shifts put just the ...

Recreational gold mining is a pastime for many people these days, and for good reason: the largest nugget ever found in California was discovered by an amateur.

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BALLARAT, Australia — An amateur gold ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — With shows like “Gold Rush”, ...

A sharp rise in the price of gold is drawing folks out of their homes and into nature, fueling surge of interest in amateur prospecting across the US. The price of gold broke $4,000 per ounce for the ...