AU Gold Region Still Producing

"As the wet season ends gold prospectors will return to Charters Towers. A hundred and forty years after gold was first found in the region you can still strike it lucky thanks to modern technology.

Anyone with a metal detector can still find gold around Charters Towers.

But it may take a while.

That's according to Tom Lawn who has been prospecting in the region for more than 50 years. "

Read more HERE.

Image Credits: Nathalie Fernbach

Cali's BIG Nugget

"A property owner with a metal detector in the Sierra community of Washington unearthed a gold nugget worth about $250,000.

The nugget weighs about 10 pounds, but it's worth more as a collector's item because it's the largest nugget in California.

Mining experts said the 49ners just missed finding it. Instead, it got covered up with their mining debris.

'This is what it's all about. This is what brought thousands to California and it's the last one,' said expert Fred Holabird."

Read more HERE.