Two gold nuggets worth around A$350,000 (£190,000; US$250,000) have been discovered by a pair of diggers in southern Australia. Brent Shannon and Ethan West found the nuggets near goldmining town ...

But how exactly nuggets form remains a geological mystery ... A typical association of gold crystals in white quartz matrix. To test this hypothesis, the researchers conducted an experiment ...

This deep-seated respect and the story behind each White Hat acquisition render it a legendary item, encapsulating the spirit ...

A gold nugget - claimed to be one of the biggest ever found in Britain - is reported to have been discovered in a Scottish river. The gold, dubbed the Douglas Nugget, weighs 85.7g, and has been ...