Recreational gold mining is a pastime for many people these days, and for good reason: the largest nugget ever found in ...

At first, the Norwegian man thought his metal detector reacted to chocolate money buried in the soil. It turned out to be nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls in what was described as the ...

A Norwegian out walking on doctors’ advice unearthed rare 6th-century gold jewelry using a newly bought metal detector, a discovery archaeologists said on Thursday was Norway’s “gold find of the ...

In a metal like copper, however, the outer electrons swim around freely and are shared by all the atoms. That’s why ...

An Australian couple was searching for gold using a metal detector in the Kalgoorlie Goldfields in 1979 when they uncovered the largest gold nugget found in the region in the previous 50 years. Coming ...

At first, the Norwegian man thought his metal detector reacted to chocolate money buried in the soil. It turned out to be nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls someone might have worn as showy ...

A 800-year-old cache of gold jewelry and silver coins was discovered in northern Germany. And where there’s newly unearthed gold, there’s quite likely an amateur metal detectorist who located it.

"I told him he might as well just sell the detector now because he already peaked," a Danish museum employee told the man. Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and ...

A man in Montclair, Calif., had an electronic gold detector. And he got excited when he got a hit right in his front yard. Henry Mora started digging. He says he just intended to go down a few feet.

A metal detectorist found what he believes is the largest gold nugget ever found in England. Despite arriving late and using faulty equipment, he found the 64.8-gram nugget within just five minutes of ...