14 Oct 2025

Gold hunter giving up day job to search professionally

From Checkpoint, 4:05 pm on 14 October 2025

Could we be on the cusp of an amateur gold rush? In the past year the price of gold has increased 65%, to over $7000 dollars an ounce. Mal Blown is one of the amateur gold hunters who has jumped into searching, running a Facebook page and Youtube channel dedicated to the craft called Mal's Gold Adevntures. Blown is now giving up his day job to pursue gold hunting professionally, and spoke to Lisa Owen.