CABARRUS COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - Most people are familiar with the California gold rush -- but did you know the first gold ever ...

A gold digger -- yes, really -- made quite the discovery while out in the Butte County foothills this summer. And we're just now learning about it."The Butte Nugget," as it's called, is about 80 ...

The “Welcome Stranger” Nugget. On February 5, 1869, two miners, John Deason and Richard Oats, stumbled upon what would become the largest gold nugget ever found.“It is a great story of two ...

Dozens of giant gold nuggets were found all over the Sierra in the mid-1800s, including the 54-pound Magalia Nugget — shoveled out of the dirt, also in Butte County, in 1859. But most were ...

Don Kagin holds a 98.6 ounce gold nugget in the Chroniicle studio on Friday January 14, 2011 in San Francisco, Calif. He and his business partner Fred Holabird are auctioning off the nugget in ...

The man who found the nugget also asked Kagin to keep his name and the location of the discovery a secret. One of the largest gold nuggets ever found in Ca is on display at the SF Fall Antiques ...

The man found the nugget, weighing about 85 grams, or 3.02 ounces, while lying face down with a snorkel in the riverbed, a method that prospectors call “sniping.” ...

The Biggest Gold Nugget Ever Found. Tue, January 14th 2014 at 12:00 AM. Updated Wed, January 15th 2014 at 12:25 AM. Share.

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 ...

A 145-ounce gold nugget has been reportedly found in Victoria, Australia by a real life prospector and could be worth more than A$250,000 ($190,710) when it goes to auction.

A gold-hunter claims to have found the UK’s largest gold nugget, weighing a hefty 121.3 grams (4.28 ounces), in a Scottish river.

A massive gold nugget believed to be worth about $80,000 was discovered by a retired man in Western Australia who said he’s been searching the area for years with a metal detector.