Rockhounding and gold prospecting are two activities that anyone with some basic equipment and know-how can partake in.

Pyrite, an iron sulfide ore, is often known as fool's gold because its shiny metallic luster and pale brass-yellow color can ...

In May 2015, David Hole, a resident of the small Victorian town of Maryborough, was sweeping a metal detector through the ...

A plain-looking lithium rock is now more valuable to the modern economy than its appearance suggests. Hidden inside are ...

Deep beneath the Black Hills, inside a former gold mine turned science lab, researchers have found something that sounds almost too strange to be useful. Tiny underground microbes may help turn carbon ...

A black smoker on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. (MARUM/CC BY 4.0/Wikimedia Commons) Japan has found a potentially perfect place to build a commercial underwater gold mine – although whether it should is ...

This aerial drone photo taken on Nov 20, 2024 shows a site in Pingjiang county, Central China's Hunan province. [Photo/Xinhua ...

Two discoveries reveal a hidden Byzantine settlement and sealed tombs containing gold amulets.

The fight to claim a 3.5-tonne space rock didn't just kickstart a publicity battle that divided an empire — it also left a gaping hole in culture. Centuries on, the question remains: Who owned it?

Unlike mozzarella or packaged processed cheese, yak churpi carries the story of the Himalayas of harsh terrain, survival and ...

In 1970, Soviet scientists began drilling into the ground on the Kola Peninsula in the far northwest of the country, hoping ...

Police are investigating a suspicious death after a woman was found dead during a welfare check at a CBD property.