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A massive gold nugget worth at least $110,000 has been uncovered by a prospector in remote Western Australia. The retired man, who doesn’t wish to be named to protect his identity, says he’s been combing the same patch in the northern Goldfields with a metal detector for years, but struck it lucky with better Technology . “When I had finished digging it out, I just thought ‘Oh my god’,” he said of the find, a 3.23kg specimen containing 68 troy ounces or 2.11kg of gold. “It was pretty deep at about 800mm in clay soil so it took more than two hours of careful digging to get it out.” A retired man made the discovery. Rob Anderson, who owns the Prospectors Pick in Bunbury, has known the prospector for a long time and says he’s a specialist at finding deep nugget s. “He’s been very successful over the years,” Mr Anderson said. “I think this find proves there’s still a lot of gold...

Brent Shannon and Ethan West found the nuggets while on TV show Aussie Gold Hunters Two gold nuggets worth around A$350,000 (£190,000; US$250,000) have been discovered by a pair of diggers in southern Australia. Brent Shannon and Ethan West found the nuggets near goldmining town Tarnagulla in Victoria state. Their lucky find was shown on TV show Aussie Gold Hunters, which aired on Thursday. The men dug up the ground and used metal detectors to detect gold in the area. “These are definitely one of the most significant finds,” Ethan West said, according to CNN. “To have two large chunks in one day is quite amazing.” They found the nugget s, which have a combined weight of 3.5kg (7.7lb), in a number of hours with the help of Mr West’s father, according to the Discovery Channel which airs the programme. The nuggets weigh around 3.5kg (7.7 lb) in combined weight The show, which is also broadcast in the UK, follows teams of gold prosp...

A gold prospector has found a gold nugget worth $4,000 buried two feet underground. The prospector, known as Bill M, found the 50g nugget on a private property in the Ballarat area, south-west Victoria, last week. The exact location remains a secret. He shared a photo of the nugget to Australian Facebook group Detecting Downunder. The prospector, known as Bill M, found the 50g nugget (pictured) on a private property in the Ballarat area, south-west Victoria ‘This is straight from a main gold reef and Bill looks like he’s onto something special. It was found about two feet (60cm) down.’ A gold reef is where a large amount of gold is found encased underground in the rock it was formed in. The community of treasure hunters weighed in on the find. ‘Just wondering what a nugget of that size is worth ? one user asked. The group administrator answered: ‘At the current gold price of $82 per gram, it’s worth around $4k. Not a bad...

But one lucky explorer is set for a windfall after discovering Britain’s largest ever gold nugget in a river in Scotland. Experts say that the 85.7g lump, which is the width of a golf ball, is worth at least £50,000 – and potentially much more. The valuable nugget was found lodged in a riverbed by a treasure hunter Gold expert Leon Kirk of Gold Panning Supplies described the discovery as ‘unprecedented’ and expressed his wish that a British museum would buy it. He added: ‘The nugget’s rarity means it is very hard to put a price on it. ‘I would say it is worth at least £50,000 but, as it’s rarer than a Aston Martin or a Faberge egg, a billionaire could easily come along and pay a lot more for it. ‘Historically, it is off the Richter scale.’ Gold expert Leon Kirk admires the nugget that’s valued at £50,000 He found it by ‘sniping’, which involves wearing a dry suit and snorkel and lying face down in a river. He said: ‘I was following a crack in the bedro...

A MINE in Australia has produced what its owner believes are two of the biggest gold specimens in recorded history. The biggest of the stones came in at 90kg and is estimated by the company to contain about 2300 ounces of gold, a total that at current prices would be worth around £2 million . Gold encrusted rocks which were recovered from the Beta Hunt mine in Kambalda East, Australia The second-biggest piece weighed 60kg and was valued at about £1.5 million . Early estimates from RNC Minerals have put the total take of coarse gold from the cut at more than 9000oz, or more than £8 million worth . Airleg driller Henry Dole has been credited with uncovering the astonishing find at the 45-year-old Beta Hunt gold mine near Kambalda. He has been in the profession for 16 years and says he has never seen anything like it. Gold in quartz at Beta Hunt mine after the ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ discovery Miner Henry Dole was the first to spot the massive nugg...

A SKINT dad found a lump of gold worth £20,000 while walking with his family and their dog called Lucky. He was walking on the outskirts of Bendigo, Australia, when his daughter stumbled across the nugget and asked: “Dad, is this gold?” Stock image showing a gold nugget similar to the one found in Australia The dad-of-two, who wants to remain anonymous, told the Bendigo Advertiser: “I actually walked right past it but my daughter pretty much kicked it as she was walking. “She then goes, ‘Dad, is this gold?’. I said, ‘I think it might be’.’’ He headed to the supermarket to weigh the gold and it came in at 20 ounces. He said: “We couldn’t find anywhere to properly weigh it. HARD TIMES “We ended up taking it to the IGA and weighing it up there at the supermarket. They weren’t too happy that we were weighing it at the deli there.” And the gold couldn’t have come at a better ti...

These two men, like all of us, climbed ravines and pits in childhood, but they did not abandon this Business and eventually became professionals. In the Australian state of Victoria, they found a huge gold nugget worth about 30 thousand dollars. VIDEO: Source: https://thefoxposts.com/australian-gold-hunters-found-a-huge-nugget-TheFOXposts-7339.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Mysterious Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

THERE’S GOLD IN THEM HILLS! Prospector finds massive gold nugget worth over £50,000 in a small California town… which is now preparing for Wild West-style gold rush The lump of precious metal, which is thought to be worth over £50,000, was uncovered in sleepy Jamestown, California. Golden find … Prospector Oscar Espinoza made glittering discovery thought to be worth over £50,000   What a lump … Gold nugget is so heavy it broke precise scales The small town is now preparing itself for a flood of gold hunters after local man Oscar Espinoza of nearby Modesto made the mammoth find. The nugget , which weighs over a half a kilo, was discovered in the Woodscreek area of the town. Lucky Oscar’s hotel owner friend Charlie Morgan was first to hear about the discovery. When asked what his reaction was, Mr Morgan told CBS: “‘Oh my God’, I thought, ‘That’s a lucky guy”. The gold is so weighty that it broke ...

It is almost twice as heavy as the UK’s second biggest nugget, which was found in Cornwall Vincent Thurkettle, 60, was stunned to see the incredible 97.12g (3oz) nugget of gold gleaming in a crevice on the sea bed off the coast of Anglesey. It is almost twice as heavy as the UK’s second biggest nugget , which was found in Cornwall more than 200 years ago in 1808 and weighed 59g. The nugget is believed to be part of a £120 million haul of gold which went down with the Royal Charter when it was shipwrecked during a hurricane in 1859. Treasure hunters have spent 150 years trying to find traces of the lost gold and Vincent spent seven summers scouring the shore before he was rewarded for his efforts. He spent around six weeks each summer looking for gold dust with a team of his family and friends and uncovered the nugget when he was shallow diving around five metres from the shore. “I was absolutely stunned when I first saw the nugget. The sun was...

The nugget is the same size as a 20p piece but it’s worth a whole lot more The Canadian gold-panning enthusiast found the precious metal, worth around £10,000, earlier this week. The 20-carat nugget weighs around 18.1grams and was hauled from a river in Dumfriesshire. The man, who only wishes to be known as “John” from the Gold Rush province of British Columbia, was learning to pan under the watchful eye of expert Leon Kirk. Museum trustee Gerard Godfrey and panning expert Leon Kirk with the find John said: “Leon was telling me how to look out for haematite, the red-coloured mineral often found with gold. “We were a few minutes into panning when I found the nugget with a bean tin, an underwater viewing tin with a glass base. “I saw the piece lying just under the surface of the water and picked it up.” But he added: “It didn’t look like much and I was just about to throw it back when I thought I should double-check with Leon first. “I said, ‘Is this g...

IF there are any flags in the little township of Moliagul, in Central Victoria, they should be flown from the house tops today. It was at Moliagul on February 5, 1869 — just three-quarters of a century ago to-day — that John Deason unearthed the largest nugget of gold found in the world, — the Welcome Stranger. Before the nugget was sold, pieces of gold were broken off and given as souvenirs to friends, but the remaining 210 lb. gross yielded 2268 oz. 10 dwt. 14 gr. of smelted gold, for which Deason and his partner, Richard Oates, received £9534. Adventure Calls Finding the urge for adventure stronger than the ties that held him to his homeland, and the associations of his youth, young Deason bade good-bye to his friends and sailed for the new El Dorado. But while he cherished visions of sharing in the riches said to exist in such abundance in this new land, he never imagined, even in his wildest thoughts, that one day he would dig up the greatest golden priz...

Three men in rural Victoria, Australia, have unearthed two golden nugget s worth almost £200 ,000. Ethan West and Brent Shannon, helped by Ethan’s father Paul West, made the discovery using a digger to clear the top layer of soil before turning to their metal detectors. The nugget s, located near Tarnagulla, a gold mining town in central Victoria, weighed 78 and 45 ounce respectively. “We were in the grips of not being able to freely mine because we were unable to get the permits and licences through in the time frame,” Mr Shannon said. “When you find large piece, you don’t automatically get excited. In the first instance of seeing a big lump of gold, it’s not instantly joyous, it’s more a sense of accomplishment and History . The monetary side comes in last.” Mr West added: “My reaction is bit different to Brent. He is like a child in candy shop. I see the prospect of making a lot of money. When you see the size of the nugget and start working out what it’s...

A massive gold nugget worth at least $110,000 has been uncovered by a prospector in remote Western Australia. The retired man, who does not wish to be named to protect his identity, said he had been combing the same patch in the northern Goldfields with a metal detector for years, but struck it lucky with better Technology . “When I had finished digging it out, I just thought ‘Oh my God’,” he said of the find, a 3.23kg specimen containing 68 troy ounces or 2.11kg of gold. “It was pretty deep at about 800mm in clay soil, so it took more than two hours of careful digging to get it out.” Rob Anderson, who owns the Prospectors Pick in Bunbury, has known the prospector for a long time and said he was a specialist at finding deep nuggets. “He’s been very successful over the years,” Mr Anderson said. “I think this find proves there’s still a lot of gold still out there, even in areas you might think...

A lucky amateur prospector in the Australian state of Victoria has struck gold after unearthing a nugget weighing 5.5kg (177 ounces). The gold nugget, which has an estimated value A$300,000 ($315,000: £197,000), was reportedly found using a handheld metal detector. The owner of The Mining Exchange Gold Shop in Ballarat, Cordell Kent, said the find was one of the most significant in his 20 years in the Business . “I have been a prospector and dealer for two decades, and cannot remember the last time a nugget over 100 ounces (2.8kg) has been found locally,” said Cordell Kent, owner of the Ballarat Mining Exchange Gold Shop. “It’s extremely significant as a mineral specimen. We are 162 years into a gold rush and Ballarat is still producing nugget s – it’s unheard of,” he told the BBC. He also said the man who made the dramatic find said the nugget sounded like the bonnet of a car through the headphones. Mr Kent is now s...