Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A huge, heavy-looking rock is held by gloved hands in a museum. This rock turned out to be 'more valuable' and rarer than gold In ...

In the rugged goldfields of southeastern Australia, a local prospector spent years trying to crack open a mysterious, rust-colored rock. He was convinced it held gold. The object was unusually heavy, ...

For years, an Australian prospector guarded a heavy “gold rock” that refused to crack, convinced it might hold a life‑changing nugget inside. When experts finally examined it, they told him he had not ...