Huge gold nugget goes on sale

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A huge gold nugget found last year in California's Mother Load goes on sale in
March this year

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0110/Gold-rush-Biggest-California-nugget-up-for-sale

The nugget was found by an amateur miner who was out sleuthing on his own property, using a metal detector. When the man brought the nugget to the offices of geologist Fred Holabrid in Reno, Nev., for verification, Mr. Holabrid knew it was "one in a trillion."
 

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