Golden Beauty is among the largest golden nuggets ever found in Australia. CREDIT: Heritage Auctions. Heritage Auctions “Finding a Gold nugget of any size is an absolute trophy, but to find ...

Here’s how it works. The largest gold nugget ever found in England was discovered by a man using a faulty metal detecting device. Metal detectorist Richard Brock unearthed the chunk of gold last ...

On February 5, 1869, two miners, John Deason and Richard Oats, stumbled upon what would become the largest gold nugget ever found. “It is a great story of two guys instantly becoming fabulously ...

If you can’t afford the Golden Beauty, a second nugget is also on the auction block. It weighs in at 15.52 ounces, just over ...

“The biggest finding is showing a new gold-forming process and providing an explanation for how really large gold nuggets might form,” says Christopher Voisey, a co-author of the study and a ...

But these days, finding a nugget isn’t too tricky: Much of the world’s gold is mined from natural veins of quartz, a glassy mineral that streaks through large chunks of Earth’s squashed-up ...

In March, a treasure hunter in England found what was estimated to perhaps be the biggest gold nugget ever found in the country. The large gold nugget, nicknamed "Hiro's Nugget," weighing 64.8 grams. ...

An Australian couple was searching for gold using a metal detector in the Kalgoorlie Goldfields in 1979 when they uncovered the largest gold nugget found in the region in the previous 50 years.