'That’s only half the rock, the other half is at home': Australian man digs up 2.6kg gold nugget - worth £135,000, using a budget metal detector
The man found a 4.6kg rock speckled with gold nuggets in Victoria’s goldfields using a bottom-of-the range $1,200 metal detector.He took it to a prospecting story in Geelong, named Lucky Strike Gold, asking the owner Darren Kamp: “Do you think there’s $10,000 in it?”The man replied: “that’s only half the rock, the other half is at home.”
The entire rock contained 83 ounces of gold - around 2.6kg - and was worth $240,000 - around £135,000.“The largest I’ve ever found prospecting was 24 ounce 12 years ago.” Lynnie Hindle, the president of the Bendigo branch of the Prospectors and Miners Association of Victoria , said: “If a big nugget is found, it always creates a new gold rush.”
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