For years, an Australian prospector guarded a heavy “gold rock” that refused to crack, convinced it might hold a life‑changing nugget inside. When experts finally examined it, they told him he had not ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An amateur Australian prospector who hadn't had much luck searching for gold has struck it rich, unearthing a nugget heavier than a newborn baby and worth more than $300,000. The ...

After 20 years of fossicking for crystals in outback Australia, a prospector has made the discovery of a lifetime. Hundreds of smoky quartz had been concentrated around a single square metre. But it ...