Australia has not escaped the threat of increased tariffs on its exports to the U.S. but its gold mining industry is revelling in commodity market uncertainty.

A metal detectorist has unearthed "the find of a lifetime" hidden under a rotting log and three feet of dirt. Luke Phillips, who runs the popular YouTube channel Dig It Detecting, was out hunting ...

Stories about Chinese miners during Australia’s famous gold rush of the 1850s are often told ... First Nations people in the gold-mining town, Ballarat, in Victoria’s west.

Stretching from Ballarat to Bendigo, the world’s most extensive and best-surviving gold rush-era landscapes were earlier this ...

By the time the gold rush hit, First Nations peoples living in Ballarat were almost exterminated ... The story of Australia's journey to Federation is often told as one of growing rights and ...

"It probably is an unprecedented gold boom." Australia has one of the largest underground gold reserves in the world. Australia's "gold capital" celebrates the metal hitting $5,000 an ounce for ...

Western Australia. These sites draw thousands of music lovers each year. Now an art gallery in the regional Victorian city of Ballarat is hoping it has struck gold with a new exhibition centred ...