Scanning parks and beaches with one of these can be a unique and fascinating hobby.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 1, amateur metal detectorists Katarzyna Herdzik and Jacek Ukowski made a stunning discovery on a Polish beach. Their ...

A rose gold Iron Age stater was found by Matt Bell during a metal detecting lesson from Charlie Cooper When actor Charlie Cooper offered to teach a friend metal detecting, he did not expect his pupil ...

Hundreds of thousands of Australians are prospecting, fossicking and mining as the price of the elusive precious metal soars.

A Victorian man has unearthed a gold nugget while filming a prospecting tutorial video in WA's Goldfields with his wife. Kevin Richardson found the 7-ounce nugget under a shrub in bushland about 600km ...