According to expert Darren Kamp, who has worked in the gold mining industry for over 40 years, he had never seen anything like it before.
A resident of the Australian state of Victoria, armed only with an economical metal detector, found a 4.6 kg nugget containing 2.6 kg of gold in the “golden triangle”. NCA NewsWire writes that the “Victoria’s Golden Triangle” refers to the region lying between Ballarat, Bendigo and Saint Arnaud.
The man, who did not want to be named, decided to find out how valuable his find was and took the stone to the Lucky Strike Gold office in Geelong for evaluation. By examining the fetched stone, geological exploration equipment salesman and expert Darren Kamp discovered it contained 2.6kg of pure gold. “
“He took this stone out of his backpack and tossed it into my hand, saying, ‘Do you think it’s worth $10,000? As soon as I get it,’ Camp told reporters, ‘Try $100,000… It’s one of those life-changing things. My mouth fell open when I put it in my hand,” I said.
According to an expert who has worked in the gold mining industry for 43 years, this is the largest nugget he has ever seen. Finding the stone using an inexpensive metal detector surprised him even more. Considering that small gold nuggets can cost up to $1,000, this would be a huge sum, at least $240,000.
He emphasized that the search for gold is now attracting more and more young people.
“If you had asked me a few years ago, I would have said the average age for this hobby was 50 and over. But now we see a lot of people in their 20s and 30s doing it,” Kamp said.
“Victoria’s Golden Triangle”
This region in north-central Victoria stretches between Ballarat, Bendigo and St Arnaud and includes smaller towns in between such as Daylesford, Maryborough and Castlemaine. During the gold rush period of the 1850s, very beautiful structures emerged in these settlements, which today function as museums, galleries and cafes. The gold nuggets from this region were renowned for their quantity, size and purity, and most of them were alluvial, meaning they were found in streams or river beds.
The largest nugget ever found in this area was discovered near Moliagul in 1869. It weighed 72 kg, and today its price is about 6.8 million dollars.
Previously Focus He wrote that the largest silver nugget ever found was heavier than the American bison.
Source: Focus
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