Australian found a huge gold nugget (4 photos + 1 video)
Australian man discovers 4.6kg gold nugget worth $240,000 with a cheap metal detector. More than half of the stone is gold.
The man, who wished to remain anonymous, went to searching for gold in the so-called Golden Triangle in Victoria. This area enclosed in a triangle with vertices in the cities of Ballarat, Bendigo and Maryborough, and even a little further west as far as St. Arnaud. There, prospectors have mined gold since the 1800s, and this one is especially popular. the area was during the gold rush of the 1850s.
At that time, most of the gold nuggets were alluvial - they were found in streams or riverbeds. Prospectors flocked to this region in search of wealth and built cities. Today preserved since then the buildings have been used as museums, galleries and cafés.
In 1869, two Cornish miners unearthed the largest a gold nugget discovered in the area and named "Welcome, stranger." He weighed 72 kg, had a length of 61 cm and was sold for £10,000 (approximately AU$18,475 dollars). Today, a nugget of this size will cost about 6.8 million dollars.
So, the lucky hero of our story took with him cheap metal detector and, combing the area, heard the squeak of the device. Having dug out a 4.6-kilogram nugget, the man carried the one that had broken off from it a piece to a company that evaluates such finds. It revealed, that the gold content in the nugget is very high, there is more than half of it.
The appraiser told me, "Do you think he's worth ten thousand dollars? No, at least ten times more!” I answered: "Wow, the wife will be happy about that." And then he told him what he brought for estimates are only half of the nugget.
As a result, it turned out that the nugget contains 2.6 kg of gold. This is a once in a lifetime find!
It seems that now the number of people who roam the Golden Triangle with metal detectors will increase significantly
