Luke Phillips, who runs the popular YouTube channel Dig It Detecting, was out hunting for gold in the ... pulling out of the ground a hefty gold nugget the size of his fist.

Mr. Birkmyre says: “The gold of this nugget, from the crucible assays, I found to be 98'C6 per cent of pure gold. It thus contains only 1-75th of alloy, composed chiefly of silver and iron.

Important high-precision testwork on intercepts from Marmota Ltd’s Aurora Tank gold project in South Australia’s Gawler ... and to check against the “nugget effect”, whereby a drill ...