Honorary professor Andrew Stoeckel, an economist from the Australian National University, told SBS News gold has no "intrinsic" economic value. "How would having a bucket of gold on a desert ...

It receives just a fraction of the cash spent on drilling in Australia, but stats show Victoria punches above its weight in gold discoveries.

April 22 (Reuters) - Australian shares ended little changed on Tuesday as volumes remained thin in a holiday-truncated week and a rush to safer assets like banks and gold miners offset a sell-off ...

The state's central gold district has 12 fossicking locations and Mr Pascoe said there had been a rush of bookings in ... the most productive gold mines in Australia at its peak, before closing ...