Prospector discovers massive 2kg gold nugget near Ballarat

From australianmining.com.au

A two-kilogram gold nugget has been dug up on the outskirts of famous Central Victorian gold rush city Ballarat. The happy prospector, a retiree who wished to remain anonymous, discovered the 63-ounce specimen using a metal detector. Mark Day, who operates metal detector retailer Gold Ballarat, said there had already been offers of $160,000 for the nugget that the prospector has named “You Wouldn’t Believe It.” “I’ve been in this business for 25 years and this is the biggest find we have seen by one of our customers – that they’ve told me about anyway,” he joked. The man was using a Minelab GPX45000 ... (full story)