"A lot of the time, you dig down and down, very hopefully, and you end up coming up with an old rusty nail ... pulling out of the ground a hefty gold nugget the size of his fist.

“At first, I just found a few rusty old tent pegs with this back ... that makes all the difference.” How a gold nugget ended up in the Shropshire Hills, near Much Wenlock, remains a mystery.

The Gold Rush star showed off the gold nugget on social media, saying discoveries like this don’t happen often.

People have long been fascinated by nuggets, large aggregates of almost pure gold often found nestled within the host rock or loose in weathered sediments. But how exactly nuggets form remains a ...