Dozens of giant gold nuggets were found all over the Sierra in the mid-1800s, including the 54-pound Magalia Nugget — shoveled out of the dirt, also in Butte County, in 1859.

At today’s gold price, the nugget would be worth $11.63 million. Unfortunately, the Welcome Stranger is no more. The nugget was so big that it had to be broken into three pieces on an anvil by a ...

June 8, 2011 — -- A gold nugget that sold at auction for $460,000 in March may, it turns out, actually be from Australia -- not California's gold country. Fred Holabird, the auctioneer who ...

In 1861, the National Institute and its geological specimens, including this gold and the letter, entered the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. The Marshall Nugget remains in the collections ...

A triceratop’s nasal horn, fossilized horse skull, and a 10-pound golden nugget uncovered by a couple using a metal detector over 40 years ago are only some of the rarities set for auction on ...

The world’s biggest gold nugget ever found weighs as much as an adult man and it is a gold miner’s absolute dream. For people hoping to invest their fortune, gold has typically been a reliable ...

While there are many contradicting stories on how much the gold nugget actually weighed, it was over 11 pounds, according to the Town of Breckenridge. The nugget became known as Tom’s Baby.

The newspaper reports that a nugget worth $110,000 AUD (about $76,000 USD) was found last September. According to outlet, eight of the world’s 10 largest gold nuggets ever found were discovered ...

Gold has always been a hot commodity. But these days, finding a nugget isn’t too tricky: Much of the world’s gold is mined from natural veins of quartz, a glassy mineral that streaks through ...