Category: gold nugget

Detectorist Down Under Finds 10-Pound Gold Nugget Worth $250,000 As Gold Prices Soar in Australia

An amateur gold hunter Down Under hit pay dirt in March when he stumbled on a massive nugget worth a cool quarter million. The finder, who wished to remain anonymous, was scanning Victoria’s “golden triangle” between St Arnaud, Bendigo, and Ballarat when he heard his detector sound. The man brought the gold specimen to gold…


Largest Gold Nugget Found in Alaska Weighs 20 Pounds—to Fetch $700,000 to 1.2 Million at Auction

The largest gold nugget ever found in Alaska is set to be auctioned in Texas in December and is expected to fetch over $700,000. In the summer of 1896, over 100,000 prospectors descended upon northwestern Canada after gold was found near the Klondike River. About 100 years later, in 1998, a prospector named Barry Clay—so the…