The nugget had to be broken into smaller pieces in order for its total weight to be calculated. The two men who discovered it ...

Valued at up to approximately 600 billion yuan or US$83 billion, the discovery could be one of the largest and most lucrative ...

nugget was spotted by a worker while he was levelling a pile Named Devil's Ear due to shape and the fact its 6.66kg weight features the 'devil's number' Miners are hoping to find more gold nuggets ...

All the gold ever mined on Earth fits into a 23x23 meter cube—an astonishing fact about the world's limited gold supply.

It was the biggest gold discovery in history…until it wasn’t. In 1995, Canadian mining company Bre-X announced to the world it had found a significant amount of gold deep in the jungles of ...

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