That drags gold particles out of fluid in Earth’s crust. The particles crystallize out as grains of gold—and, over time, with enough electrical stimulation, those grains bloom into nuggets.

He took it home and tried everything to open it, sure that there was a gold nugget inside the rock – after all, Maryborough is in the Goldfields region, where the Australian gold rush peaked in ...

He discovered a rare gold nugget worth about 240,000 Australian dollars, or about $160,000, while scanning Victoria’s “Golden Triangle” with his metal detector.

In 2020, gold diggers in southern Australia found two huge nuggets worth $250,000 in historic goldfields. In 2013, an amateur explorer discovered one worth at least $300,000.

A close-up of a large gold nugget. Gold, often found in large quantities in quartz deposits underground, may cluster as earthquakes generate electricity in the rock. bodnarchuk/Getty ...

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Australian man finds giant gold nugget. Photo: 9 News Australia/Youtube An Australian man using a budget metal detector has hit the score of a lifetime – a giant gold nugget worth $160,000.