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

The “Boot of Cortez” is the Earth’s reminder to us of the marvels that are still out there to be gazed upon wondrously by human eyes. The largest surviving gold nugget ever discovered in the Western ...

At that time, Hole was exploring the terrain in Maryborough Regional Park. At one point, his metal detector signalled the presence of a heavy, reddish rock submerged in clay. Read also ...

Researchers studied historical records to narrow down the search area, then used a marine magnetometer—a type of underwater metal detector ... tax for each Chinese prospector who arrived ...

Cook said the prospector was walking around saltbush flats in the Kalgoorlie region when the detector began sounding. After some digging, the hefty piece of precious metal was uncovered. At the ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a 1,000-year-old Viking gold arm-ring on the Isle of Man, now on view at Manx Museum.

Armed with a metal detector he had just received as a birthday present, Atchison dutifully scanned the area, hoping to hear that coveted “beep.” Eventually, he did. Eagerly digging into the ...

Lucas Atchison found a steel spike while using a metal detector at the beach. The family reported the wreckage to provincial parks and heritage officials. An eight-year-old child in Canada's ...

Syrians are rushing to buy metal detectors in the aftermath of the Assad regime’s collapse late last year. Many are on the hunt for gold left behind by previous civilizations and empires from Syria’s ...

This school year, the high school seniors researched security and safety options and took surveys of students asking how they ...

An amateur metal detectorist discovered a buried hoard of nearly 1,500 Roman coins near Bucharest, Romania. The coins, which spanned multiple eras, were buried in a ceramic container roughly 1,700 ...