It was the 6.07-pound “Butte Nugget,” believed to be the biggest gold chunk dug up in Gold Rush country in modern times. Ever since the existence of this whopper was revealed in The Chronicle ...

The Gold Nugget Days Queen Contest and Revue took place Thursday evening at the Paradise Performing Arts Center at 777 Nunneley Road. The queen was announced past this newspaper’s deadline ...

Just one day after it was unveiled to awed crowds in San Francisco, the whopping 'Butte Nugget’ of gold sold Friday to a “prominent Bay Area collector” for an undisclosed amount of money ...