guy found this gold nugget with detector 62 lbs

[imafishingnutt]

World's Largest Gold Nugget


Las Vegas, Nevada
It's named "Hand of Faith," it's the size of a baby, and it weighs almost 62 pounds. It was found in 1980 by a guy in Australia with a metal detector, who reportedly almost didn't bother to dig it up because he thought that his machine was faulty. Hand of Faith was only six inches below the surface. The Golden Nugget bought it for a million dollars.

 

[TeddyB1967]

WOW thats a nice chunk of gold!!! If I could only be so lucky lol

 

[DJ_Quinn]

OMG, that's like hitting the lottery, only better.

 

[warsawdaddy]

I'd settle for the 'finger of Faith'.Second thought,I already have several times.

 

[hmmm]

SPECTACULAR
a russian muesum has nuggets shaped like horses heads, the same size to. did you guys know the gold from the gold coast in australia is identical to the vancover island gold .

 

[Stormtrooper154]

I have seen that at the Golden Nugget casino, Very impressive!

 

[stefen]

Isn't that the one that the family found behind their trailer home?

 

[Bavaria Mike]

I have an Aussie gold coin with the Hand of Faith on it, bought, not found, LOL. It is one of the largest nuggets ever found. HH, Mike

 

[Marty-Graw]

I'd settle for the 'finger of Faith'.Second thought,I already have several times.

dont know bout the finger of faith but ive gotten the finger several times

 

[stefen]

I have an Aussie gold coin with the Hand of Faith on it, bought, not found, LOL. It is one of the largest nuggets ever found. HH, Mike

Please do not get the idea that this comment is argumentative, its that Las Vegas would like everyone to think that it the largest (still in existence, maybe) but sorry to say, its large but not one of the largest...

There is a replica of one at Knott's Berry Farm that's been on display for as long as I can remember and would blow your socks off...larger than the Hand of Faith and stands about 4' tall x 6 or 8 inches...I need to get over there and get the facts...


However, on October 19, 1872 in History, the World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales which is about 473 pounds...give or take an ounce or so...lets see. that's about 5,676 ounces at $755 or $4,285,000 (probably more as a nugget) which could buy a round or two at the local pub...

There is a list that I have seen in the past the shows the weight and origin or others...

 

[texan connection]

I may be wrong but I think Garrett owns it now

 

[ModernMiner]

WOW!!!! What a find. Maybe that will be the next big score on the "Oceans 14" sequel?
Can you imagine lugging that piece back to the car?
Thanks for the post.
-MM-

 

[tinpan]

The Welcome Stranger Nugget was the largest gold nugget ever found in Australia At 2332 oz's by John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul
Victoria.

I,m kind of interested to know where the imfo posted in thread came from.The Hand of faith was found at Kingower both these sites are less that 30 minutes from me.

heres a few other nuggets that exceeded 1000 ozs

White horse
Stranger
Fiddlers
Pynreness
Homebush
Durham
Glasgow
Argus
Eagle
all found in the state of victoria between 1851 -1869

tinpan

 

[bomber]

get off the net tinpan and go for the gold

 

[DJ_Quinn]

Those aren't nuggets, they're boulders! No wonder they say that gold is the stuff that dreams are made of.

 

[gollum]

The Welcome Stranger Nugget was the largest gold nugget ever found in Australia At 2332 oz's by John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul
Victoria.

I,m kind of interested to know where the imfo posted in thread came from.The Hand of faith was found at Kingower both these sites are less that 30 minutes from me.

heres a few other nuggets that exceeded 1000 ozs

White horse
Stranger
Fiddlers
Pynreness
Homebush
Durham
Glasgow
Argus
Eagle
all found in the state of victoria between 1851 -1869

tinpan

Here it is:

WELCOME STRANGER (or better yet to keep the theme going "The Torso of Faith").

 

[texan connection]

If thats 187 lbs it must be hanging from a rope or on a table Thats heavy

 

[gollum]

If thats 187 lbs it must be hanging from a rope or on a table Thats heavy

That is a duplicate in the picture. The real one was cut in two because the blacksmith shop where it was weighed didn't have a scale that could weigh the whole thing at once.

Mike

 

[imafishingnutt]

The Welcome Stranger Nugget was the largest gold nugget ever found in Australia At 2332 oz's by John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul
Victoria.

I,m kind of interested to know where the imfo posted in thread came from.The Hand of faith was found at Kingower both these sites are less that 30 minutes from me.

heres a few other nuggets that exceeded 1000 ozs

White horse
Stranger
Fiddlers
Pynreness
Homebush
Durham
Glasgow
Argus
Eagle
all found in the state of victoria between 1851 -1869

tinpan

holy ^%#%
im going to have to research this nugget it looks too fake
thanks for posting it.
Here it is:

WELCOME STRANGER (or better yet to keep the theme going "The Torso of Faith").

 

[imafishingnutt]

Re: guy found this gold nugget with detector 62 lbs update

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The Welcome Stranger
Miners and their wives posing with the Welcome Stranger. The nugget was discovered in Moliagul on February 5, 1869.The Welcome Stranger was the name given to the discovery of a large gold nugget, measuring 61 cm by 31 cm, discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, Victoria, Australia on February 5, 1869 about 9 miles north-west of Dunolly. Found only 2 inches (5 centimetres) below the surface on a slope leading to what was then known as Bulldog Gully. It weighed 2316 troy ounces or 72.04 kg. It is the largest alluvial gold find in the world.

The goldfields warden F. K. Orme reported 2268 ounces 10 dwt 14 grains (70.5591 kg) of smelted gold obtained from it (97.9% of the total weight), irrespective of scraps that were given away by the finders.

At the time of the discovery there were no scales capable of weighing a nugget of this size and it was broken into three pieces on an anvil for weighing by a local blacksmith.

They took the "Welcome Stranger" nugget into Dunolly to the London Chartered Bank who advanced them £9,000. Deason and Oates were paid £19,068 (about £1,391,964 today) for their nugget which became known as "Welcome Stranger". It is bigger than the "Welcome Nugget" at 2217 ounces (68.96 kg) found in Ballarat in 1858.

An obelisk commemorating the discovery of the 'Welcome Stranger' was erected near the spot in 1897.

John Deason (Deeson) was born in 1829 at Tresco, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England. Prior to being a gold miner, in 1851 he was a tin dresser.

[1] Deason continued with gold mining and workings most of his life and although becoming a store keeper at Moliagul. He lost a substantial proportion of his wealth through poor investments in gold mining. He bought a small farm near Moliagul where he lived at the end of his life and died in 1915, aged 85 years.

Richard Oates was born about 1831 at Pendeen, Cornwall, England. [2] After the 1869 find Oates returned to England and married. He returned with his wife to Australia where they had four children. The Oates family purchased 800 acres (3.2 km²) of land at Marong in 1895 about 15 miles (25 km) west of Bendigo, Victoria, and Oates farmed until his death at Marong, Victoria in 1906 aged 75 years.

A replica of the Welcome Stranger can be found at the City Museum in Treasury Place, in Melbourne, Victoria.