Wedderburn heart of gold find leaves owner anxious
Leo Mathews has been searching for gold for the last 15 years. After a ‘drought’ of 15 months he finally struck gold in the form of a 25 ounce gold nugget he found while fossicking in the bushland north of Bendigo. Describing it as very solid with no pipe clay or much detritus and shaped in the form of a heart , Leo has called it – The Heart of Gold. “They’re rare, a bit like snowflakes; no two are the same,” he said. Leo had had only been out in the field for about four hours that afternoon, with only two hours of detecting time when he came across an area in the bush that had been previously ‘worked over’. Noticing the middle part had been left untouched, he decided to explore further, having been spurred on by the small speck of gold he had found nearby. Leo Mathews and his 25 ounce gold nugget valued at about $40,000. “It’s probably been sitting in the ground for millions of years waiting for me to come along...