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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.
The Welcome Stranger is an alluvial gold nugget which is the biggest ever discovered, and was unearthed by Cornish miners John Deason and Richard Oates on 5 February 1869 in Moliagul, 9 miles north-west of Dunolly in Victoria, Australia.
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.
Discovery of one of the largest gold nuggets in the Black Hills 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.
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 largest’ gold nugget, despite metal ...
They include the Welcome Nugget which weighed 68.98 kilograms (152.1 lb) which is considered to be the second largest gold nugget ever found. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Another find, the Lady Hotham, which weighed 98.5 pounds (44.7 kg), was found by a group of nine miners on September 8, 1854, in Canadian Gully, Ballarat at a depth of 135 feet (41.2 ...
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 ]
Barry Lloyd Clay (born November 1, 1955) is a gold miner from Palmer, Alaska. In 1998, Clay discovered the largest gold nugget ever found in Alaska on Swift Creek near Ruby. The nugget, nicknamed "The Alaska Centennial Nugget", weighs 294.1 troy ounces. In 2007 he operated a mining camp that allowed tourists to search for gold on his claims.