10 Largest Gold Finds?

[mn90403]

I don't think this is an accurate list but it adds some details to many things found and made of gold.

 

Top Ten Gold Treasure Discoveries of the Century (greekreporter.com)

[GB_Amateur]

I didn't see that they referred to the treasures with the adjective 'largest'.  What do they mean by "Top Ten"?  I guess whatever they choose.  Certainly some nice loot there, including at least two (that I noticed) found with metal detectors.

[blackjack]

Yes mn not accurate, as you say but, good reading just the same, thanks. I'll let geof_junk tell us about the largest nugget ever found 😉

[geof_junk]

Largest gold nugget

In late 2018, miner Henry Dole - an employee of RNC Minerals - found what is now claimed to be the largest ever gold nugget. While digging in the Beta Hunt mine near Kambalda in Western Australia , Dole found a gold nugget weighing 89 kg, beating all the others on our list, and the previous historical leader, the Welcome Stranger.

The nugget is still waiting for verification of size and purity to claim its place as the world's largest gold nugget. Once determined, the gold nugget can receive an estimated value, but it will be worth millions for the gold content alone. Given its new claim as the world’s biggest gold nugget it will undoubtedly fetch a price into the tens of millions thanks to its rarity.

List of nuggets[edit]

Name	Discoverer(s)	Location of discovery	Country	Date	Gross weight	Net weight	Notes	References
Welcome Stranger	John Deason and Richard Oates	Moliagul	Australia	1869	2,520 ozt (78 kg; 173 lb)	2,284 ozt (71.0 kg; 156.6 lb)	Found only 3 cm (1.2 in) below the surface, near the base of a tree	[5]
Welcome Nugget	Red Hill Mining Company	Bakery Hill, Ballarat	Australia	June 1858	2,218 ozt (69.0 kg; 152.1 lb)		Melted down in London in November 1859	[6]
Canaã nugget also known as the Pepita Canaa[a]	Serra Pelada Mine	State of Pará	Brazil	September 13, 1983	1,955 ozt (60.8 kg; 134.1 lb)	1,682.5 ozt (52.33 kg; 115.37 lb)	Largest in existence	[9]
	W. A. Farish, A. Wood, J. Winstead, F. N. L. Clevering, and Harry Warner	Sierra Buttes	United States	August 1869	1,593 ozt (49.5 kg; 109.2 lb)		Sold to R. B. Woodward for $21,637	[10]
	Serra Pelada Mine	State of Pará	Brazil		1,506.2 ozt (46.85 kg; 103.28 lb)		Displayed at the Banco Central Museum in Brazil	[11]
	Serra Pelada Mine	State of Pará	Brazil		1,393.3 ozt (43.34 kg; 95.54 lb)		Displayed at the Banco Central Museum in Brazil	[11]
Lady Hotham		Ballarat, Victoria	Australia	1854	1,170 ozt (36 kg; 80 lb)	17 dwt. of gold	Named after the wife of Governor Charles Hotham	[12]
The Golden Eagle	Jim Larcombe and son	Goldfields-Esperance, Western Australia	Australia	1931	1,135 ozt (35.3 kg; 77.8 lb)		Sold to and melted down by state government	[13]
The Heron		Golden Gully in the Mount Alexander goldfield	Australia	1855	1,008 ozt (31.4 kg; 69.1 lb)		Miners found the nugget on their second day of digging	[14]
Hand of Faith		Kingower, Victoria	Australia	1980	875 ozt (27.2 kg; 60.0 lb)		Found using a metal detector	[15]
Fricot Nugget	William Davis	Sierra Nevada and Northern California goldfields	United States	1865	201 ozt (6.3 kg; 13.8 lb)		Sold for $3500 to Jules Fricot, who sent it to the 1878 Paris Exposition. On display at the California State Mining and Mineral Museum.	[16]
Dogtown Nugget	Chauncey Wright for Phineas Willard, Ira Weatherbee and Wyatt M. Smith.	Magalia, California	United States	1859	648 ozt (20.2 kg; 44.4 lb)		Sold to the San Francisco Mint for $10,600	[1

[rvpopeye]

Geeeeeze the tiny one is 200 ozt 🤯

 

 

 

[Clay Diggins]

I'm puzzled. The Beta Hunt is a hardrock mine. I was under the impression to be called a nugget the gold had to be placer. All the other nuggets on the list of big nuggets came from placer deposits.

If hardrock deposits of gold could be called nuggets there are much larger masses uncovered in hardrock mines. There was a solid gold stope mined in the United Verde extension that topped out at nearly a ton.

[geof_junk]

I was just looking at the prices they got for most of those nuggets. they would be a lot higher in today value by around 150 times to day in $US or 225 $Aus

[Drellim]

That’s interesting because I have seen larger masses underground  and have herd of more nuggets  are placer right must be confused 

[chrisski]

I did not see any news of an 89 kg nugget on Google.  I did find gold production for the mine, and each of the last five years total production was less than 89 kg