Any More News On 35 Pound Gold Specimen Found With GPZ 7000?

[Steve Herschbach]

As posted on the Minelab Facebook page on June 21st....

[strick]

That is just Insane....

strick

[tvanwho]

His muscles are straining to hold that thing so it must be the real deal?

Any details on it?

[Clay Diggins]

This is not a solid gold nugget. It's a specimen and my best guess is it's about 20% gold.

A kilo of gold is virtually the same size as an iPhone. Width: 40mm (1.58 inches) Length: 80mm (3.15 inches) Depth/Thickness: 18mm (0.71 inches)

16 kilos is less than 7 inches square. Unless the person holding the nugget is a baby there is no way that's 16 kilos of gold.

All that being said I'm thinking the finder just about lost it when they found it. I'd sure like to see some better pictures and maybe hear how it was found.

[beatup]

Heard about it, first photo i've seen of it

[Steve Herschbach]

Obviously gold in quartz, but I will put my guess at more like 50% gold by weight

[tvanwho]

What's a kilo anyway? Speaking of which ,why do we have all these different weight measuring systems

in use today instead of just one? Troy, Av, metric, carats, etc? Gets me all confused.

[tboykin]

On 7/11/2016 at 5:31 PM, tvanwho said:

His muscles are straining to hold that thing so it must be the real deal?

Nah, his arms are ripped from swinging a GPX/Z all day... 

[beatup]

A Kilo is 1000 Grams,or 32 oz.

[AussieMatt]

1 hour ago, tboykin said:

Nah, his arms are ripped from swinging a GPX/Z all day... 

Nah, it's from digging all the gold targets. Smart people have no issue with detector weight, there are tools to counter that - performance is what matters....