The couple was out simply looking for a little gold with their metal detector, but ended up finding the largest from Kalgoorlie in more than half a century. At the time of writing, the bid for the ...

Rough Science has a gold theme running through it, and one of the challenges for the first episode was to make a metal detector to help locate this precious metal. Iron, gold and other metals ...

An Australian couple was searching for gold using a metal detector in the Kalgoorlie Goldfields in 1979 when they uncovered the largest gold nugget found in the region in the previous 50 years.