Rough Science has a gold theme running through it, and one of the challenges for the first episode was to make a metal detector to help locate this precious metal. Iron, gold and other metals ...

An Australian couple was searching for gold using a metal detector in the Kalgoorlie Goldfields in 1979 when they uncovered the largest gold nugget found in the region in the previous 50 years.

Terry Herbert, 55, a jobless man on welfare, used his metal detector on a Staffordshire field to find a valuable hoard of ancient gold and silver artifacts that has been called one of the most ...

A Norwegian man had barely unwrapped his new metal detector when he discovered what experts have described as the “gold find of the century.” Erlend Bore, 51, told NBC News by telephone ...

A ROOKIE treasure hunter using his new metal detector for the first time has unearthed one of the largest ever hauls of pre-Viking gold. The huge treasure trove - including gold medallions as big ...