Between every modern prospector and that little pocket of bullion, there’s a great metal detector that can strike gold at the boardwalk or even just find jewelry you lost in the backyard. By John ...

The mother lode of winter storms has sent water blasting through rock crevices and rivers in the Sierra Nevada, leading to more glittering discoveries by prospectors. Image In just 20 minutes of ...

Jay Carroll estimates he’s found about 60 spoons in the Hudson Valley with his metal detector. Historically, people buried spoons as a superstition; stick one in the ground and your family would never ...

While searching a field in southwest England, metal detectorists stumbled on the "find of a lifetime": two gold-and-garnet objects dating to around 1,400 years ago. Paul Gould, a new detectorist with ...

In his 50 years of scouring the Isle of Man with a metal detector in hand, Ronald Clucas had never found anything like it: eight strands of gold looped neatly together. Months on from its discovery in ...