Beer Can Size Nugget

[eggilbert]

Check this out. Then call your travel agent!

http://news.mcmedia.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=200503094812354

 

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[omnicognic]

hey,eggilbert
All I get at that link is a login page!

 

[eggilbert]

Sorry, that's all I'm getting now (login), I couldn't get any futher.
The story was of a prospector in Austrailia.
He had found a huge nugget, with picture, valued between $30,000. and $40,000.
The article went on to describe the area and pick he had used to discover the nugget.
The pick was a new tool called "Wombat Digger" or something like that. I tried
researching the tool but came up empty.
Sorry all!

 

[eggilbert]

Further research gives me the following; (I could only retrieve headlines from)
The Shepparton News
Shepparton, Austrailia
News
Prospector's picks are worth their weight in gold 1
Doing a favour for a mate has left a Shepparton man with a 1.58 kg golden reward.
Cliff Watters, of S.H. Wallace and Co., gathered together four ...
end of retrieval.