MELBOURNE, Dec 30 (Reuters) - In the hinterlands of Australia's historic goldfields, Vicki Plumridge jumps for joy when she digs a small golden nugget out of the earth. The retired retail worker was ...

Hobbyists are flocking to Australia's "golden triangle" in the heart of Victoria state, known as one of the world's most bountiful regions for gold nuggets. The prospectors have been spurred on by ...

Witnesses describe agents taking a 5-year-old boy, wearing a blue hat and a Spider-Man backpack, in the back seat of a black SUV. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the ...

Minneapolis — In the classic 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” an old gold prospector opines that the precious metal is valuable because an ounce represents the sweat and ...