Dozens of giant gold nuggets were found all over the Sierra in the mid-1800s, including the 54-pound Magalia Nugget — shoveled out of the dirt, also in Butte County, in 1859.

Just one day after it was unveiled to awed crowds in San Francisco, the whopping 'Butte Nugget’ of gold sold Friday to a “prominent Bay Area collector” for an undisclosed amount of money ...

A massive gold nugget found this summer in Northern California is expected to carry a $350,000 minimum price tag when it is sold Thursday at the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show.

Scientists have uncovered that earthquakes and electric forces could be the key to forming large nuggets of gold.

The world’s biggest gold nugget ever found weighs as much as an adult man and it is a gold miner’s absolute dream. For people hoping to invest their fortune, gold has typically been a reliable ...

A whopping 100-ounce gold nugget found in California last spring will go to auction March 15. The mega-find and high gold prices have triggered a new gold rush in them thar hills.

GIANT GOLD NUGGETS FROM A MONTANA GULCH.; Three Reported Found, the Biggest Weighing Forty-two Pounds, and Worth $10,000.

An Australian man using a budget metal detector has hit the score of a lifetime in Victoria– a giant gold nugget worth $160,000.

Gold diggers in southern Australia have found two huge nuggets worth $350,000 AUD ($250,000 USD) in historic goldfields.

Geologists have known for decades that gold forms in quartz with the help of earthquakes, but now they have worked out exactly how the setting and seismic waves combine to form large nuggets.

New research suggests that electricity generated by earthquakes might be the key to the formation of giant gold nuggets. The study by geologists at Melbourne’s Monash University is published in Nature ...

Scientists have uncovered that earthquakes and electric forces could be the key to forming large nuggets of gold.