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An Australian hobby prospector has made the find of his life. He came across a gold nugget weighing 2.6 kilograms in the “Golden Triangle” in the state of Victoria.
The gold was contained in a stone weighing 4.6 kilograms. The stone was sold to local gold merchant Darren Kamp. He says that the gold has a value of more than 148,000 euros. “This is a once in a lifetimefind,” he says in Australian media.
The man who found the gold nugget wishes to remain anonymous. According to Kamp, the man came to him a few weeks ago: “He said, ‘I want to show you something. Do you think I can get $10,000 for this?'” When he had the stone in his hand, Kamp immediately felt that you could easily get 100,000 Australian dollars (61,000 euros) for it.
As if the surprise wasn’t big enough, the finder then reported that that was only half of the stone: the other half was still at home. “Wow, my wife is going to be happy with this”, the prospector is said to have said at the time.
Golden Triangle
The stone was found in the so-called Golden Triangle, an area between the towns of Ballarat, Bendigo and St. Arnaud in the state of Victoria, in southeastern Australia.
Experts estimate that the gold fields in Victoria still contain about 2.1 million kilos of gold. During the gold rush from about 170 years ago, about 2.2 million kilos of gold were already extracted from the ground. Small bits of gold are still regularly found today, but 2.6 kilos in one stone is very special.
According to 9News did the man use a cheap metal detector, of less than 750 euros:
