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

A regional Victorian gold prospector is celebrating a big payday after uncovering a 2.6-kilogram specimen of quartz and gold while prospecting in "the Golden Triangle" between Bendigo, Ballarat, and ...

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 ...

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 ...