The Bendigo family, who asked to remain anonymous, were walking their dog — fittingly named Lucky — on the outskirts of town on Sunday morning when the daughter kicked something hard lying on the ...

“I actually walked right past it, but my daughter pretty much kicked it as she was walking. She then goes: ‘Dad, is this gold?’ I said, ‘I think it might be’,” he said. The ‘David Reed’ gold nugget, ...

MINING and exploration companies will spend more than $15 million this financial year and more in coming years looking for gold in central Victoria in a bid to spark another gold rush.The big spend ...