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Miners have discovered two massive gold-encrusted rocks estimated to be worth millions of dollars each in Western Australia. The biggest weighed 95kg (210lb) and was found to contain more than 2,400 ounces of gold. Canadian mining company RNC Minerals said it had extracted gold worth £9m from a mine near Kalgoorlie and the find was “extremely rare”. The second rock yielded around 1,600 ounces of gold and weighed in at 63kg (138lb). Professor Sam Spearing, director of the Western Australia School of Mines, said: “People do still record finding nuggets in goldfields, but typically they are less than several ounces. “Very, very seldom do we see results on that level. This is an exceedingly rare find and very exciting.” The Beta Hunt mine, where the giant nuggets were found , had been used to extract nickel until the discovery last week. Over the past week, approximately 9,250 ounces of high-grade gold was produced from the mine....

The “world’s thinnest gold” is one million times thinner than a fingernail – and is so thin, it’s technically regarded as “two dimensional”. This image shows a gold “nanosheet” that is just two atoms thick The official measurement is 0.47 nanometres, made possible because the gold is made up of just two atoms sitting on top of each other. This revolutionary material could be used to create new Technology and speed up industrial processes, according to its creators at the University of Leeds. “Gold nanoparticles are used to speed up chemical reactions,” researcher Dr Sunjie Ye told The Sun. “This ultra-thin gold could be used in new medical devices that test for the early signs of disease or illness. This image from an electron microscope shows how the atoms of the gold nanosheet arranged themselves into a “highly organised” lattice pattern “It could also have uses in tran...

Illustrative image of a gold nugget. A retired man in Western Australia discovered a gold nugget worth $AU110,000 ($80,000) while prospecting. Aretired man prospecting for gold in a remote part of Australia has struck it rich after he stumbled across a gold nugget worth $AU110,000 ($80,000). He had been searching for treasure for years in the northern Goldfields, near Kambalda, in Western Australia, using his trusty metal detector. 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 “Duck’s Foot” because of its shape. The man, who did not want to be named, said: “When I had finished digging it out, I just thought ‘Oh my God!’ It was pretty deep at about 800 millimeters in clay soil so it took more than two hours of careful digging to get it out,” he said, according to Australian A...

The majority of gold production in Oregon has come from a gold belt that spans approximately 50 miles wide and 100 miles long and includes the Blue Mountains in the northeastern part of the state. Most gold production has come from Baker and Grant counties, with smaller gold deposits in adjoining counties. Thousands of ounces of gold have come from this region. Gold production included both lode mining and placer mining, and while there were many famous discoveries in this region, the most well known find was the famous Armstrong Nugget. The Armstrong Nugget is an impressive gold nugget, and the largest gold nugget from Oregon still in existence today. It was found by George Armstrong and Dick Stewart on June 19, 1913. They were placer mining in Buck Gulch, near what is now a ghost town named Susanville, in Grant county. While washing out gravels in a part of their claim, Stewart spotted an odd looking object in the creek and reached down to pick it up. He was s...

Investigators have been left scratching their heads as to why a treasure trove of gold coins was hidden in an old piano . The collection of 913 coins, declared as treasure by a coroner on Thursday, was found hidden beneath the instrument’s keyboard at a school in Shropshire as it was being retuned. It is reported the hoard could be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, though it still has to be formally valued. Experts from the British Museum say the coins range in date from 1847 to 1915 and include 633 full sovereigns and 280 half-sovereigns. They were found neatly stacked in several hand-stitched bags and would have been worth around £773 at the time they were hidden, well above the average house price of £619. The collection is yet to be formally valued The majority of the coins date from the reign of Queen Victoria and were found to be 91.7% pure gold. At an inquest into the discovery, coroner John Ellery ruled that the gold coins were treasu...

But one lucky explorer is set for a windfall after discovering Britain’s largest ever gold nugget in a river in Scotland. Experts say that the 85.7g lump, which is the width of a golf ball, is worth at least £50,000 – and potentially much more. The valuable nugget was found lodged in a riverbed by a treasure hunter Gold expert Leon Kirk of Gold Panning Supplies described the discovery as ‘unprecedented’ and expressed his wish that a British museum would buy it. He added: ‘The nugget’s rarity means it is very hard to put a price on it. ‘I would say it is worth at least £50,000 but, as it’s rarer than a Aston Martin or a Faberge egg, a billionaire could easily come along and pay a lot more for it. ‘Historically, it is off the Richter scale.’ Gold expert Leon Kirk admires the nugget that’s valued at £50,000 He found it by ‘sniping’, which involves wearing a dry suit and snorkel and lying face down in a river. He said: ‘I was following a crack in the bedro...

An Aussie metal-detector enthusiast was sure he had dis covered a piece of rubbish — possibly an old horseshoe — when his device signaled a sizable find in Central Victoria’s storied Golden Triangle last week. What he pulled from the ground was a 145-ounce (4.12kg) gold nugget worth nearly $200,000. “I really couldn’t believe my eyes,” said the amateur prospector, who wishes to remain anonymous. “This wasn’t an old piece of steel in front of me. I had just unearthed a colossal gold nugget – a once-in-a-lifetime find! I was in total disbelief as I didn’t think nuggets of this size were still around.” The lucky Aussie named the nugget “Friday’s Joy” to honor the day on which it was discovered. Only a day earlier, the same man had found a nine-ounce, near-round gold nugget using his Minelab flagship GPZ 7000 metal detector. Based on that success, he decided to return for more. Back in March 2015, we reported on a massive 87-ounce g...

Derek Hough celebrated the start of Shark Week by sharing his own epic video of his encounter with a Great White Shark last year. The 35-year-old World of Dance star took to Instagram on Monday morning, revealing in his caption he got, ‘up close and personal with the iconic Great White Shark. Shark week: Derek Hough celebrated the start of Shark Week by sharing his own epic video of his encounter with a Great White Shark last year Up close: The 35-year-old World of Dance star took to Instagram on Monday morning, revealing in his caption he got, ‘up close and personal with the iconic Great White Shark The accompanying video began with Hough, clad in a grey baseball cap and a white tank top riding on boat heading to the Guadalupe Islands. ‘I’m on my way right now to the Guadalupe Islands where I’m going to be getting into these massive steel cages and swimming with Great White Sharks, getting up close and personal with these amazing ...

A MINE in Australia has produced what its owner believes are two of the biggest gold specimens in recorded history. The biggest of the stones came in at 90kg and is estimated by the company to contain about 2300 ounces of gold, a total that at current prices would be worth around £2 million . Gold encrusted rocks which were recovered from the Beta Hunt mine in Kambalda East, Australia The second-biggest piece weighed 60kg and was valued at about £1.5 million . Early estimates from RNC Minerals have put the total take of coarse gold from the cut at more than 9000oz, or more than £8 million worth . Airleg driller Henry Dole has been credited with uncovering the astonishing find at the 45-year-old Beta Hunt gold mine near Kambalda. He has been in the profession for 16 years and says he has never seen anything like it. Gold in quartz at Beta Hunt mine after the ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ discovery Miner Henry Dole was the first to spot the massive nugg...

THE RAREST piece of gold in the world has been analysed by scientists and they will no longer reveal its price. Known as the Ram’s Horn, scientists have been reluctant to conduct tests on the precious wire gold artefact until now. This is the rarest piece of gold in the world The Ram’s Horn was found in 1887 in a goldmine in Colorado. It is roughly 4.7 inches tall, weighs roughly half a pound and is so delicate that it has naturally split into three tendrils. At the time of its discovery, the gold horn was valued at around £125 by weight—or about £3,550 in today’s currency. However, experts will no longer speculate on its current value due to security concerns . The artefact was found at a goldmine in Colorado John Rakovan, a mineralogist at Miami University, could only tell National Geographic that the object was worth “a very pretty penny.” -ADVERTISEMENT- Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory recently used a half-mile-lon...

A SKINT dad found a lump of gold worth £20,000 while walking with his family and their dog called Lucky. He was walking on the outskirts of Bendigo, Australia, when his daughter stumbled across the nugget and asked: “Dad, is this gold?” Stock image showing a gold nugget similar to the one found in Australia The dad-of-two, who wants to remain anonymous, told the Bendigo Advertiser: “I actually walked right past it but my daughter pretty much kicked it as she was walking. “She then goes, ‘Dad, is this gold?’. I said, ‘I think it might be’.’’ He headed to the supermarket to weigh the gold and it came in at 20 ounces. He said: “We couldn’t find anywhere to properly weigh it. HARD TIMES “We ended up taking it to the IGA and weighing it up there at the supermarket. They weren’t too happy that we were weighing it at the deli there.” And the gold couldn’t have come at a better ti...

The Crown Jewel is a massive leaf gold specimen from California. It weighs a huge 44 pounds, and is the largest crystalline gold structure in existence today. It is over three times larger than the famous Fricot Nugget. This gold nugget was found in Jamestown, California on Christmas Day in 1992 by the Senora Mining Company. Initially the miners believed that it was just a piece of discarded rusting metal from a piece of mining equipment, but further investigation proved that they had discovered a huge gold in quartz specimen. Buy Natural Gold Nuggets This amazing specimen was eventually purchased by Ironstone Vineyards, which is why it is now often called “Ironstone’s Crown Jewel”. The original specimen actually weighed about 63 troy pounds before preparation, but after soaking the piece in hydrofluoric acid to remove much of the quartz matrix from the upper part of the specimen, it ended up weighing roughly 44 troy pound. The preparation process took over a y...

MIDLAND, N.C. — Less than an hour’s drive east of Charlotte, there’s a place that’ll make it feel like it’s still the gold rush. Reed Gold Mine is in Midland, North Carolina, and is where the first documented gold was discovered in the United States. According to Reed Gold Mine, then-12-year-old Conrad Reed was playing near Little Meadow Creek in 1799 when he found a 17-pound yellow rock. History says the Reed family didn’t know what Conrad had discovered, so they took it to a silversmith in nearby Concord. But since no one had identified gold in America yet, the silversmith didn’t know what it was. At that point, the Reed family decided to use the yellow rock as a doorstop But Conrad’s dad, John, was still curious about the rock. He brought it to a jeweler in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The jeweler told John Reed it was actually a gold nugget and that he could cash it in for a week’s worth of wages to John Re...

The Eagle’s Nest Mine in California is famous for consistently producing high-grade crystalized gold. Much of the specimen crystalized gold sold in the United States has either come from the Eagle’s Nest Mine or the Round Mountain Gold Mine in Nevada. Before 1982, there were several claims in the Michigan Bluff mining district in Placer County that produced these specimens. Later these were bought and consolidated into the current Eagle’s Nest Mine. Specimens of crystallized gold are extremely rare. Although California is probably the largest producer of crystallized gold in the world, this type of gold only occurs in small pocket mines such as the Eagle’s Nest Mine. Since it is extremely rare, crystallized gold specimens are valuable collector’s item, far removed from the actual spot price of gold. Crystalized gold specimens can occur in a variety of different types including These include cubic and octahedron structures, leaf crystal gold, dendritic formation...

There has been tons of gold found in Colorado over the years, but it isn’t particularly well-known for producing large gold nuggets. Most of the gold-bearing creeks and rivers have fine placer gold, with some bigger flakes and occasional small nugget. They may be few and far between, but there have been some huge gold nuggets found in Colorado. The largest piece ever unearthed comes from the Gold Flake Mine in Summit County, Colorado. The mine is located in French Gulch near the famous mining town of Breckenridge. It was found in 1887 by two men named Tom Groves and Harry Lytton, and it was named “Tom’s Baby”. It weighs an exceptional 156 troy ounces! This wasn’t the only large nugget to come from the rich vein that the men were working; in fact it was said that they extracted over 240 ounces from that same pocket! Tom’s Baby isn’t a waterworn placer nugget like most nuggets you may have seen. It was actually removed from a hard rock pocket, and has a crystall...

Gold forms in veins that are locked up within rocks and minerals completely unassociated with water. This combination of gold and quartz is one of the most common host rocks from where the primary gold originates. These gold-bearing rocks, under several chemical and physical factors (various forms of erosion) are broken down, eventually leading the gold to separate from its host rock. Water does not affect the places where gold forms on Earth, but it has a huge effect on where it can be found! The Concentration of Gold in Rivers These large deposits of gold are usually transported due to gravity (if formed in hills or mountains) or by water movements. Once the residual gold enters a stream or a river, it becomes alluvial gold and because gold is a heavy metal, they become difficult to move and begin to concentrate in areas like the lowest point in a stream bed. These alluvial gold deposits are usually found many miles away from the primary source of gold and ...