List of gold nuggets by size - Wikipedia
Two gold nuggets are claimed as the largest in the world: the Welcome Stranger and the Canaã nugget, the latter being the largest surviving natural nugget. Considered by most authorities to be the biggest gold nugget ever found, the Welcome Stranger was found at Moliagul, Victoria, Australia in 1869 by John Deason and Richard Oates.
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2023年12月21日 · In an astonishing discovery, RNC Minerals, a Toronto-based company, unearthed a colossal gold nugget in Western Australia’s Beta Hunt Mine. This nugget, weighing a staggering 2,440 ounces, is potentially one of the largest ever found. The discovery was part of a haul totaling about 9,000 ounces of gold, valued at approximately $15 million.
World’s Largest Gold Nugget found in Australia - Geology Page
2020年2月21日 · Found near Wedderburn, Australia in October 1980, the magnificent Hand of Faith gold nugget was found using a metal detector. This incredible treasure was discovered in a vertical position, laying just six inches below the surface. The Hand of Faith nugget weighs a massive 875 troy ounces (61 pounds, 11 ounces).
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2023年4月2日 · Holtermann 'Nugget': 10,229oz. While the Welcome Stranger is the largest gold nugget ever discovered, the single biggest gold specimen ever found is the Holtermann. Dug up in October 1872 by German miner Bernhardt Holtermann at Hill End in New South Wales, it was crushed, and the gold extracted.
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2024年3月28日 · But despite everything that went wrong that day, Brock discovered a 2.3-ounce (64.8-gram) gold nugget after just 20 minutes of searching. The object, nicknamed “Hiro’s Nugget,” is...
The Largest Gold Nugget Ever Found (Who Actually Found It?)
2023年1月21日 · Most experts agree the Welcome Stranger is the largest gold nugget ever found and is closely followed by the Welcome Nugget. You’d think we would have a clear-cut winner based on weight alone but that is not the case.
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2024年10月22日 · On the morning of February 5, 1869, in the rugged goldfields of Moliagul in Victoria, Australia, two Cornish miners named John Deason and Richard Oates discovered the largest gold nugget in history, buried just a few centimeters under the ground near the roots of a tree. It was so massive that Deason reportedly broke the handle of his pickaxe ...
The Largest Gold Nugget Ever Found - Geology In
Historically, The largest gold nugget ever found was known as the "Welcome Stranger," discovered in 1869 in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. It was initially estimated to weigh around 2,520 troy ounces, which equates to approximately 78.75 kilograms or 173 pounds.
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2024年8月6日 · What is the largest gold nugget ever found? The “Welcome Stranger” gold nugget was discovered in Victoria, Australia and is considered the largest gold nugget ever found. Once trimmed, the nugget weighed 71 kilograms, and its melt value today would be …
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2024年2月13日 · The largest chunk of gold that has ever found by a metal detector weighed in at 875 troy ounces of gold (27kg) and was discovered by Kevin Hillier in Kingower, Victoria, back in 1980. Called the 'Hand of Faith', it is now on display at …