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He Tried Everything to Crack Open a ‘Gold Nugget’—Then He Learned It Was Worth Billions!

In 2015, a resident of Maryborough, Victoria, named David Hole, thought he had found a gold nugget in the Maryborough Regional Park. He spent years trying to crack it open, convinced it contained gold ...

Revealed: The largest gold nuggets ever found

The largest gold nugget discovered in America was suitably named the Monumental. Weighing in at between 1,648 (46.7kg) and ...
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The World’s Largest Gold Nugget Was So Heavy, It Had To Be Broken To Be Weighed

In 1869, a discovery in Australia set a world record that still stands today. A pair of Cornish miners unearthed a gold nugget so massive it weighed more than an adult man.The find was so ...

Rivers where you can still find gold in the UK and around the world today

People have reportedly been hunting for gold in the Danube (pictured) for thousands of years, but today, it's mainly the ...
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Man with a cheap metal detector finds a huge piece of gold

An amateur gold prospector stumbles upon a rock containing kilos of gold in Victoria thanks to a cheap detector.