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 ...

After years of gold prospecting, it took less than an hour for one Australian man to hear the glorious squeal of his metal ...

You can call it the find of a lifetime. An experienced hobbyist, who doesn't want to be identified, found a three pound nugget of gold in Australia. The person used a metal detector to unearth the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BALLARAT, AUSTRALIA — One Australian gold ...

A mysterious-looking rock that was found by a gold prospector in Australia turned out to be something much more precious. David Hole found it outside of Maryborough back in 2015, while hunting for ...

Some gold diggers hit the jackpot in southern Australia. Prospectors found two huge nuggets worth $250,000 near Tarnagulla in Victoria, CNN reported. The nuggets have a combined weight of 7.7 pounds, ...

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 ...

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