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  2. List of gold nuggets by size - Wikipedia

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    Gold nuggets of various sizes have been found throughout the world. Historically, the nuggets are melted down and formed into new objects. The Welcome Stranger is the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, which had a calculated refined weight of 97.14 kilograms (3,123 ozt). Three of the biggest nuggets come from the Brazilian Serra Pelada mine.

  3. Hand of Faith - Wikipedia

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    The Hand of Faith is a gold nugget of fine-quality [vague] that was found by Kevin Hillier using a metal detector near Kingower, Victoria, Australia on 26 September 1980. Weighing 875 troy ounces (ozt; 27.21 kg, or 72 troy pounds and 11 troy ounces), the gold nugget was only 12 inches (30 cm) below the surface, resting in a vertical position.

  4. Welcome Stranger - Wikipedia

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    Deason and Oates were finally paid an estimated £9,381 (equivalent to A$1,485,000 in 2022) for their nugget, which became known as the "Welcome Stranger". At August 2019 gold prices, it would be worth US$3.4 million [2.3 million GBP]. It was heavier than the "Welcome Nugget" of 69.0 kilograms (2,217 ozt) that had been found in Ballarat in

  5. Man finds ‘England’s largest’ gold nugget, despite metal ...

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    A treasure hunter struggling with faulty equipment has unearthed a gold nugget believed to be the largest ever found in England. Man finds ‘England’s largestgold nugget, despite metal ...

  6. Welcome Nugget - Wikipedia

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    The Welcome Nugget was a large gold nugget, weighing 2,217 troy ounces 16 pennyweight. (68.98 kg), that was discovered by a group of twenty-two Cornish miners at the Red Hill Mining Company site at Bakery Hill (near the present intersection of Mair and Humffray Street) in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, on 9 June 1858.

  7. Huge golden nugget found in Australia worth a staggering amount

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    A man discovered an enormous gold nugget that is reportedly valued at $250,000! ... The world's largest known nugget, The Welcome Stranger, was found in 1869 in the same area. It weighed a ...

  8. Blanche Barkly - Wikipedia

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    It was, at the time, the largest gold nugget ever discovered and remains the third-largest discovered. [3] The nugget measured 2'4" (71 cm) long, 10" (25 cm) wide and varied from 1" to 2" (2.5 – 5 cm) in thickness and was valued at between £8,000 and £10,000 at the time of its discovery. [1]

  9. Potato Creek Johnny - Wikipedia

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    John Eli Perrett (February 9, 1866 or 1868 – February 26, 1943), better known as Potato Creek Johnny, [a] was an American frontiersman and gold miner, best known for having discovered one of the largest gold nuggets ever discovered in the Black Hills in 1929. From then until the end of his life, Potato Creek Johnny became a local celebrity ...