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

If you can’t afford the Golden Beauty, a second nugget is also on the auction block. It weighs in at 15.52 ounces, just over ...

“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 ...

The nugget could fetch £800 in scrap alone, but would be worth a lot more should it be deemed natural. “It is rare enough to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

He noted that gold in nugget form generally fetches more than ... Gold nuggets represent native gold in its most natural form and offer a unique way to own, maintain and appreciate the precious ...