the biggest gold nugget ever found was at dunolly.
the biggest gold nugget ever found was at dunolly.
where is the biggest gold nugget ever found?
dunolly
two gold nuggets are claimed as the largest in the world: the welcome stranger and the canaã nugget, the latter being the largest surviving natural nugget. considered by most authorities to be the biggest gold nugget ever found, the welcome stranger was found at moliagul, victoria, australia in 1869 by john deason and richard oates. it weighed gross, over and returned over net. the welcome stranger is sometimes confused with the similarly named welcome nugget, which was found in june 1858 at bakery hill, ballarat, australia by the red hill mining company. the welcome weighed . it was melted down in london in november 1859.
gold nugget
the victoria, australia gold rush of the early 1850s produced a number of large nuggets. they include the welcome nugget which weighed which is considered to be the second largest gold nugget ever found. another find, the lady hotham, which weighed , was found by a group of nine miners on september 8, 1854 in canadian gully, ballarat at a depth of 135 feet. the lady hotham was named after the wife of the governor, sir charles hotham who happened to be visiting the area when the nugget was found. eighteen months earlier, in january and early february 1853, three other large nuggets weighing , , and were also found in canadian gully at a depth of . another nugget, the heron, was found in 1855 in golden gully in the mount alexander goldfield. it weighed and was found by a group of inexperienced miners who had received a supposedly empty claim. the miners found the nugget on their second day of digging; the nugget was named after one of the gold commissioners, a mr. heron.
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