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.

The world’s largest ever gold nugget, discovered in 1869 during the Australian gold rush, remains a symbol of extraordinary wealth. Weighing as much as an adult man, the Welcome Stranger gold nugget, ...

However, there was one major challenge—the gold was buried beneath river rocks in a fast-moving stream of white water ...

One afternoon on his lunch break, he watched an old man pull out a 3 ½-ounce gold nugget from the nearby creek. Prebalick described his sudden urge to mine for gold as “almost intoxicating.” ...

This process could explain how large nuggets of pure gold form over time ... is an electric component involved could change how we search for these deposits,” said Rob Hough, a mineral resources ...

Gold has always been a hot commodity. 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 ...

What gold does do on Earth is gather, or precipitate, into larger deposits and nuggets. That happens both in volcanoes, as you describe, as well as through the mechanism described in the article ...

The findings explain how fluids carrying meager amounts of gold can concoct large nuggets, even in chemically inert settings. “You find a 2-meter-wide quartz vein, and there’s a big gold ...