The largest gold nugget discovered in America was suitably named the Monumental. Weighing in at between 1,648 (46.7kg) and ...

A gold-hunter claims to have found the UK’s largest gold nugget, weighing a hefty 121.3 grams (4.28 ounces), in a Scottish river. The metal lump, found in two pieces and dubbed “The Reunion Nugget,” ...

An amateur gold prospector stumbles upon a rock containing kilos of gold in Victoria thanks to a cheap detector.

Previously, the prevailing theory was that gold was carried by hot fluids flowing through fractures in rock. However, considering that the dissolved gold concentration is usually very small, this ...