Largest Gold Nuggets Ever Found
Two Cornish miners found the huge nugget dubbed the Welcome Stranger while prospecting in the gold fields of Victoria, Australia on 5 February 1869. It weighed 11 stone (72kg) and was 61cm long.
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The Welcome Stranger is the biggest alluvial gold nugget that has ever been found, metres (9 miles) north-west of Dunolly. A wood engraving of the Welcome Stranger published in The Illustrated Australian News for Home Reader on 1 March 1869. The scale bar across the bottom represents 12 inches (30 cm).
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Expert John Tully, with a replica of the nugget, says the Welcome Stranger's appeal still resonates today. The discovery of the world's largest gold nugget is being remembered 150 years on.
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Welcome Stranger Nugget. Gold nuggets are pieces of native gold which occur naturally. Water and erosion concentrate the accumulation of nuggets which are collected by the methods of placer or lode mining. Nuggets are also frequently found in leftover layers where veins or lodes that contain gold have decayed. Nuggets can also be found today in.
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The Welcome Stranger is the biggest alluvial gold nugget ever found, discovered by prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates, who were paid £9381 for their nugget by the London Chartered Bank of Australia at the time. A replica of Welcome Stranger is in the City Museum in Melbourne and another is held by the descendants of John Deason.
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55. The Welcome Stranger Monument Gavin (Atlas Obscura User) In the 1850s thousands of people traveled to Victoria, Australia in search of fortune as part of the Victorian gold rush. The first.
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In all, Welcome Stranger weighed in at 2,315.5 troy ounces. Naturally, as gold prospectors, the pair sold the find as soon as possible. Welcome Stranger was melted down and refined into ingots, then shipped off to the Bank of England for £9,381. At current gold prices the Welcome Stranger would be worth about 80 times more.
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It was at Moliagul on February 5, 1869 — just three-quarters of a century ago to-day — that John Deason unearthed the largest nugget of gold found in the world, — the Welcome Stranger.
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The nugget, known as the "Welcome Stranger", was taken to a bank in Dunolly where it had to be broken down to fit on the scales. The goldfields warden at the time reported 2,269 ounces of Gold.
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an account the man who found the Welcome Stranger nugget, as detailed when he was 75 yrs old on November 23rd 1905. The nugget is one of the largest alluvial gold finds. It was found in 1869 near Moliagul, Victoria, Australia towards the end of the Victorian gold rush. It was between 9 and 10am on the fifth of February 1869.
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Thus, in Australia, on February 5, 1869, two migrants from Cornwall in the United Kingdom made an astonishing discovery: a 72 kg and 61 cm long piece of gold, later named "Welcome Stranger". A record still unmatched today for a gold nugget as the "Welcome Stranger". While Australia is one of the world's largest gold producers today.
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This week marks the 152nd anniversary of the discovery of Welcome Stranger, the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found. Discovered 1869 in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, the Welcome Stranger nugget had a calculated refined weight of 3,123 troy ounces and measured 2 feet by 1 foot in size. The mid 1850s in Australia was a period.
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In 1866 the pair found a 1.1 kg (36 oz) nugget, which encouraged them to continue with their efforts. As history shows, their persistence paid off with the discovery of the "Welcome Stranger", still the largest nugget ever found in the world. Monument commemorating the 1869 discovery of the Welcome Stranger gold nugget.
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The Welcome Nugget is a large gold nugget, weighing 2,217 troy ounces 16 pennyweight. (68.98 kg),. Eclipsed by the discovery of the larger Welcome Stranger eleven years later in 1869 (also in Victoria), it remains the second largest gold nugget ever found.
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A wood engraving of the Welcome Stranger published in The Illustrated Australian News for Home Reader on 1 March 1869. The scale bar across the bottom represents 12 inches (30 cm). Worth around $3 million US in today's money, the prospectors were paid only ₤9381 by the London Chartered Bank of Australia. The gold was melted down and cast.