This piece of gold measures nearly 7.5 inches across and weighs more than 9 pounds. It ended up in a private Swiss collection ...

Jonathan Needham, 54, found the gold on the Staffordshire and Derbyshire border and believes it was formed naturally beneath the ground there. The nugget - shaped like England, Wales and Scotland ...

But these days, finding a nugget isn’t too tricky: Much of the world’s gold is mined from natural veins of quartz, a glassy mineral that streaks through large chunks of Earth’s squashed-up ...

“It has been estimated that all of the Gold ever mined could fit in a cube measuring roughly 22 meters (72 feet) in each direction. Very little remains in a natural nugget state, with the vast ...

If experts confirm the 3cm x 1cm nugget is natural it could spark a Wild West-style gold rush in the Midlands. History buff Jonathan said: “I really could not believe it. I have dug gold before ...

“In essence, the quartz acts like a natural battery ... With each passing earthquake, the nugget grows. The largest nuggets in orogenic gold deposits—those that form between tectonic plates ...

Stumbling on a giant gold nugget and never working again is something ... “In essence, the quartz acts like a natural battery, with gold as the electrode, slowly accumulating more gold with ...

The 23-pound nugget was melted down and sold for $4,800 ... “We use dirt from Little Meadow Creek for the panning area and find smaller natural gold all the time,” Neal wrote.