An Australian man armed with a cheap metal detector found a nugget weighing 4,6 kilograms containing about 2,6 kilograms of gold, worth 240.000 Australian dollars.
A man who did not want to be named has found a nugget of gold in the state of Victoria, the heart of Australia's 19th-century gold rush, the BBC reported.
Buyer and appraiser Darren Kamp said it was the biggest nugget he had seen in his 43-year career.
"I was amazed. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," he told the BBC.
Usually people bring pyrite, a mineral that looks like gold, or other gold-like stones to his appraisal shop in Geelong, just outside Melbourne.
"But he pulled out his rock, put it in my hand and asked if I thought it was worth $10.000. I looked at him and said, try $100.000," he said.
The man then approached and said that the nugget in Kampo's hand was only half of what he had found, and that the rock weighing a total of 4,6 kilograms contained about 2,6 kilograms of gold.
Camp bought the nugget, and as the lucky finder said, he was looking forward to spending the fall with his family.
Such discoveries are rare, and Australia is estimated to have the largest gold reserves in the world and many of the largest gold nuggets have been found on that continent.
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