A million-to-one find near an old Australian Gold Rush prospecting area turned out to be something far rarer than gold – a ...

Yunta and the outback that surrounds it was once dotted with small, short‑lived gold mining operations, many dating back to ...

Australia’s Golden Triangle may be named for the abundance of its cereal grains, but since the 1800s, it’s been an equally fertile ground for gold prospectors. It was recently the site for a once-in-a ...

Despite soaring prices, Australia’s gold production has been on a downward trajectory; new projects and expansions mean the ...

Hardcore prospectors return for more backbreaking work, extreme weather and cutthroat competition all in the hope of striking it rich.

An Australian man spent years trying to crack open what he thought was a gold-rich rock-only to learn it was a rare meteorite ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Canada-based Kirkland Lake Gold will list its shares on the Australia bourse on Thursday after investing millions of dollars and joining dozens of other prospectors in a modern-day ...

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 ...

Gold breached $4200 (AU $6450) per ounce for the first time in history on Thursday, as it continues a record rally amid US-China trade tensions and expected further rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve ...

Shiny, pretty and useful in electronics, gold has been prized by humans for millennia, but we're not the only ones out there prospecting. Scientists from Australia's CSIRO have now found a fungus ...

Uvre has snapped up a highly prospective slice of New Zealand gold history, securing a prospecting permit over the ...

IN THE GOOD old days, gold miners could seek out visible specks of bling at the surface in order to find deeper, richer veins. These days, prospectors must examine samples of dirt for more minute ...