An Australian man has unearthed a 1.4kg (49oz) gold nugget with a metal detector while wandering Western Australia's gold fields, say locals. A shop in Kalgoorlie shared pictures of the rock ...

[Dzl] and his rather serious looking son are metal detector enthusiasts. But when they couldn’t find their store-bought metal detector earlier this summer they just went ahead and built their own.

He is now in the process of confirming whether the piece of gold is natural or smelted. The nugget as scrap could be worth around £800 - but if it is evidence of gold mining in the Midlands in ...

The AN/PSS-14 revolutionizes landmine detection by combining ground penetrating radar (GPR) and highly sensitive metal detector (MD) technology using advanced data fusion algorithms. This unique ...

A metal detectorist has made the "discovery of a lifetime" after finding a gold nugget shaped like Britain. Jonathan Needham, ...

It was a perfect job for a metal detector, but since they didn’t own one, a serviceable unit had to be assembled from literal garbage. To start with, [zaphod] had to research how a metal ...

Industrial metal detectors indicate the presence of metal in nonconductive materials such as textiles, rubber, oils or liquids, plastics, powders, wood products, ceramics and glasses, and concrete.

A detectorist has made the ''discovery of a lifetime" after unearthing a nugget of gold - shaped like Britain.

using a metal detector. Gold mining in Australia began in the 1850s, and remains a significant industry in the country. The town of Tarnagulla itself was founded during the Victoria Gold Rush and ...

You may enjoy the look and feel of physical gold, but you'll also have to store and insure this precious metal, which is important ... by owning some stocks in gold mining companies.

Jonathan Needham, 54, found the gold on the Staffordshire and Derbyshire border and believes it was formed naturally beneath ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The price of gold today, as of 8:17 am ET, was $2,608 per ounce. That’s down 0.59% from yesterday’s gold price of $2,623.