Hundreds of thousands of Australians are prospecting, fossicking and mining as the price of the elusive precious metal soars.

Australia’s Golden Triangle may be named for the abundance of its cereal grains, but since the 1800s, it’s been an equally fertile ground for gold prospectors. It was recently the site for a once-in-a ...

MELBOURNE, Dec 30 (Reuters) - In the hinterlands of Australia's historic goldfields, Vicki Plumridge jumps for joy when she digs a small golden nugget out of the earth. The retired retail worker was ...

A Victorian man has unearthed a gold nugget while filming a prospecting tutorial video in WA's Goldfields with his wife. Kevin Richardson found the 7-ounce nugget under a shrub in bushland about 600km ...