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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. Most of the largest nuggets were melted down into ingots and so only have historical records of their size and mass.
2. Push Cart Pete. Could be worth: $9,200 This creepy dude from the '30s is actually one of the rarest toys you can find, and one of the first products from the then-new company Fisher Price.
A man discovered an enormous gold nugget that is reportedly valued at $250,000! He found the nugget during a weekend search for gold and coins in central Victoria's Golden Triangle, an area in ...
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
A massive gold nugget was reported stolen Thursday from the Long Beach Convention Center, prompting an offer of a $10,000 reward. Bob Campbell, the owner of a coin shop in Salt Lake City, said he ...
On 16 January 2013, a large gold nugget was found near the city of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia by an amateur gold prospector. The Y-shaped nugget weighed slightly more than 5 kilograms (11 lb), measured around 22 cm high by 15 cm wide, and has a market value slightly below 300,000 Australian dollars , though opinions have been expressed ...
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Within 30 days they had extracted gold valued at $6000" (approx. $250,000 today). In 1877, McDame Creek was the location of the find of a gold nugget weighing 72 ounces, worth $1,300 at the time (≈$52,000 today) and which is the largest nugget found in British Columbia's history. [ 2 ]