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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.
This is a list of historically significant items found by metal detecting method, only excluding magnet fishing finds, since magnet fishing is usually considered a distinctively different and separate hobby from traditional metal detecting.
Bellevue Gold Mine: Bellevue Gold: Leinster: Mid West none (2023) Beta Hunt Mine: RNC Minerals: Kambalda: Goldfields-Esperance: 50,311 FY 2017-18 [3] Boddington Gold Mine: Newmont: Boddington: Peel: 745,000 (2023) BrightStar Gold Mine: A1 Minerals Limited: Laverton: Goldfields-Esperance: 14,287 (2010–11) Bronzewing Gold Mine: Navigator ...
In the Outback, a young boy named Cody rescues and befriends Marahute, a rare golden eagle, who shows Cody her nest and eggs and gives him one of her feathers.Cody later falls into an animal trap set by Percival C. McLeach, a local poacher who killed Marahute's mate and is wanted by the Australian Rangers, while rescuing a mouse who was the bait in the trap.
Metal detecting finds (4 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Metal detecting" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Weeks later, gold was found in the newly established colony of Victoria. Australian gold rushes, in particular the Victorian gold rush, had a major lasting impact on Victoria, and on Australia as a whole. The influx of wealth that gold brought soon made Victoria Australia's richest colony by far, and Melbourne the continent's largest city. By ...
In the state of Western Australia, gold is the third largest commodity sector, behind iron ore and LNG, with a value of A$17 billion in 2021–22.The 6.9 million troy ounces (214 tonnes) sold during this time period was the highest amount in 20 years and accounted for almost 70 percent of all gold sold in Australia.
In 1929 and again in 1930 Lewis Harold Bell Lasseter (1880–1931) made different (and possibly conflicting) claims that either in 1911 or in 1897, he had discovered a rich gold deposit. [1] [2] On 14 October 1929 he wrote a letter to Kalgoorlie federal member, Albert Green, claiming to have discovered "a vast gold bearing reef in Central ...