Popular Post cobill Posted July 26, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted July 26, 2019 Wow, what a big nugget! Bill https://www.9news.com.au/national/gold-nugget-two-kilogram-160k-specimen-at-ballarat-unearthed-by-prospector-news-victoria/2568e03e-c0fc-4486-98f3-15f331f00072?ocid=social-9news 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim McCulloch Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Ballarat. Isn't that the Ozbloke word for "gold?" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 I prospected near Ballarat for one day before going back north. Perhaps I should have stayed? haha I think you have to get permission to be in the pastures with a metal detector but obviously a good find. I wonder what he found it with if he bought a new one. What was mined in Ballarat Victoria in the 1850s? In the 1850s gold discoveries in Victoria, in Beechworth, Castlemaine, Daylesford,Ballarat and Bendigo sparked gold rushes similar to the California Gold Rush. At its peak some two tonnes of gold per week flowed into the Treasury Building in Melbourne. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_Amateur Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 "When he showed me the nugget here in the store he was shaking like a leaf. He didn’t know what to do with it. He hadn’t slept in three days." (Mining shop operator reporting on the condition of the finder.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norvic Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Wow, one retiree refired big time. Makes you shake just thinking of it, imagine digging it...……. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strick Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Not only big but it has the looks as well..that one ought to fetch top dollar for sure. strick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatup Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Looks like it just came out of the vein . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flakmagnet Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 thrilling to see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MannyScoot Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 Prospector finds .60 gram nugget in Arizona....... Ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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