Tools you’ll need for metal detecting treasure hunting If you want to make legitimate money as a beginner metal detector, you ...

Record prices have amateur prospectors buying picks and ‘pay dirt’ buckets and dreaming of stumbling on the motherlode ...

I selected the best metal detectors after trying a handful of options that came recommended to me by Jeff Lubbert, an expert detectorist who has been tracking down treasures and finding lost rings ...

The Golden Beauty was found in 1979 and is close to 7.5 inches wide. The shiny behemoth known as the “Golden Beauty” was found in 1979 the Kalgoorlie Goldfields in Western Australia by John and ...

Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his metal ...

(CNN) — A treasure hunter struggling with faulty equipment has unearthed a gold nugget believed to be the largest ever found in England. Richard Brock discovered the gold nugget, weighing 64.8 grams ...

A man in Denmark made a stunning discovery while out with his metal detector in a small hamlet near the country's southwestern border with Germany. Buried in dirt was a striking gold ring, set with a ...

Richard Brock was an hour late to a meetup of amateur metal detectorists. Worse still, when he finally arrived, he realized his metal detector wasn’t working properly. The odds seemed stacked against ...