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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.

The lucky prospector said: "oh wow, the wife's going to be happy with that" An Australian man using a budget metal detector has hit the score of a lifetime – a giant gold nugget worth $160,000. The ...

Australia could be set for its next gold rush, which could prove as exciting as back in February 1851 when a prospector discovered shimmering flecks in a waterhole near Bathurst, New South Wales, ...

Tyler Mahoney, a professional gold digger, from Australia is in the Upstate in conjunction with Richmond Auctions and working on an upcoming gold nugget auction. But before that, she will be giving ...

Gold breached $4200 (AU $6450) per ounce for the first time in history on Thursday, as it continues a record rally amid US-China trade tensions and expected further rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve ...

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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 ...