{"id":1668,"date":"2023-03-28T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/findbullionprices.com\/blog\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2024-11-29T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T11:46:15","slug":"rock-with-2-6-kg-of-gold-discovered-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findbullionprices.com\/blog\/rock-with-2-6-kg-of-gold-discovered-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock with 2.6 kg of Gold Nugget Discovered in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man wearing a large backpack walked into a gold prospecting store about an hour southwest of Melbourne in Geelong, Australia. Darren Kamp, the store owner who valued and bought the specimen, said it was the biggest he&#8217;d seen in his 43-year career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was just gobsmacked&#8230; It&#8217;s a once-in-a-lifetime find,&#8221; he told the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/486904\/amateur-australian-gold-digger-finds-massive-nugget\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was discovered while metal detecting in Victoria&#8217;s goldfields<\/a>, the region at the heart of Australia&#8217;s gold rush in the 1800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia is estimated to have the world&#8217;s largest gold reserves, and many of the world&#8217;s biggest nuggets were found there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unique nugget is part of a more significant find of several gold-bearing rocks containing 2.6 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/findbullionprices.com\/p\/1-Kilo-Gold-Bar-999-Fine\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">kilos of gold<\/a> worth over <strong>$163,000<\/strong> based on the current spot price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, made the discovery while metal detecting in Victoria&#8217;s goldfields, the region at the heart of Australia&#8217;s gold rush in the 1800s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[791,545,186],"tags":[858,1315,857,855],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gold","category-news","category-precious-metals","tag-australia-outback","tag-gold-nugget","tag-metal-detecting","tag-raw-gold"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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