Turns out the most amazing gold nugget found in decades in the Sierra Nevada was a fake. Not fake gold, mind you. Just fake in that it was actually discovered in Australia - not on an amateur gold ...

And we're just now learning about it."The Butte Nugget," as it's called, is about 80 to 90 percent gold and weighs more than 5 pounds. The person who found it was actively searching for gold at ...

the coin dealer who acted as middle-man between the buyer and the prospector who found the 6.07-pound gold lump — the biggest nugget of its kind found in modern times in Gold Rush country.

An Australian man has found a 12-pound gold nugget in a town known for a gold rush in the 1850s. The prospector, whose name is not being revealed for privacy reasons, discovered his find in an ...

Historically, prospectors found giant gold nuggets in California during the 19th century Gold Rush days, including a 54-pound chunk found in Butte County in 1859. It has been decades since a ...

For Van Camp, at least, this one dream is 5.18 standard pounds of shimmering, nearly pure, California gold. Van Camp did not find the nugget, but within two hours of its discovery in July he was ...

with the largest being the “Holtermann Nugget,” which weighed more than 200 pounds. Top image: Valuer Darren Kamp holds the large gold nugget found in Australia.

Gold diggers in southern Australia have found two huge nuggets worth $350,000 AUD ($250,000 USD) in historic goldfields. The pair of nuggets weigh in at a combined 3.5 kilograms (7.7 pounds ...

But it was his lucky day when he managed to unearth a nugget weighing 3.23 kilograms (more than 7 pounds) and containing 68 troy ounces, or 2.11 kilograms (4.5 pounds) of gold. It has been dubbed ...