After more than an hour of digging, and with trembling fingers, Phillips proved his hunch correct, pulling out of the ground a hefty gold nugget the size of his fist. "It was an exhilarating ...

Electric currents in the Earth may be responsible for the formation of gold nuggets, new research suggests. As detailed in a ...

The Gold Rush star showed off the gold nugget on social media, saying discoveries like this don’t happen often.

People have long been fascinated by nuggets, large aggregates of almost pure gold often found nestled within the host rock or loose in weathered sediments. But how exactly nuggets form remains a ...