Hardcore prospectors return for more backbreaking work, extreme weather and cutthroat competition all in the hope of striking it rich.

An amateur gold prospector stumbles upon a rock containing kilos of gold in Victoria thanks to a cheap detector.

A million-to-one find near an old Australian Gold Rush prospecting area turned out to be something far rarer than gold – a ...

In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock ...

A Far North gold prospector who says most people won’t believe him, has a launched a campaign to sell his exploration lease ...

An Australian man spent years trying to crack open what he thought was a gold-rich rock-only to learn it was a rare meteorite ...