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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...