An Australian man has unearthed a 1.4kg (49oz) gold nugget with a metal detector while wandering Western Australia's gold fields, say locals. A shop in Kalgoorlie shared pictures of the rock ...

Two gold nuggets worth around A$350,000 (£190,000; US$250,000) have been discovered by a pair of diggers in southern Australia. Brent Shannon and Ethan West found the nuggets near goldmining town ...

Mr. Birkmyre says: “The gold of this nugget, from the crucible assays, I found to be 98'C6 per cent of pure gold. It thus contains only 1-75th of alloy, composed chiefly of silver and iron.

People have long been fascinated by nuggets, large aggregates of almost pure gold often found nestled within the host rock or loose in weathered sediments. But how exactly nuggets form remains a ...