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 ...

Victoria and Queensland are the three biggest producers,' she said. 'We're pretty lucky that we've got gold pretty much everywhere and Australians, we are known for our big gold nuggets.' ...

However, a new study published last week in Nature Geoscience details precisely how the seismic waves form the coveted nuggets, helping to solve a long-standing mystery about how gold can cluster ...

“This is insane, It is one of the rarest types of gold nuggets in the world. It’s called the INCA nugget. “It was found in Queensland by a local prospector, and it’s an almost perfect ...

The Gold Rush star showed off the gold nugget on social media, saying discoveries like this don’t happen often.

Gold naturally forms in quartz — the second-most abundant mineral in Earth's crust after feldspar. But unlike other types of gold deposits, those found in quartz often cluster into giant nuggets ...

Record high gold prices are creating renewed interest in gold fossicking in Queensland ... fossickers also have the chance to find a hidden nugget in the gold mining town of Mount Morgan.

Electric currents in the Earth may be responsible for the formation of gold nuggets, new research suggests. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the theory could ...

And with the price of gold skyrocketing, Mr McGrath said interest in searching for nuggets had also increased ... which can be purchased on the Queensland government's website.

Seismic activity (i.e. earthquakes) may finally help solve the mystery behind the existence of large gold nuggets found beneath the Earth’s surface, a new study published in Nature Geosciences ...

Victoria and Queensland are the three biggest producers,' she said. 'We're pretty lucky that we've got gold pretty much everywhere and Australians, we are known for our big gold nuggets.' ...

Scientists have discovered exactly how earthquakes trigger quartz into forming large gold nuggets — finally solving a mystery that's puzzled researchers for decades. "Gold forms in quartz all ...