Nuggets

Magnificent Gold Cluster 5.75X
Michigan Bluff California 10mm H x 18mm W

The Legendary Welcome Stranger - Australia

The largest gold nugget ever, was found by Dick Deason on the 5th of February 1886.
It was in the days of the great gold rushes of Victoria at Moliagul that this monster piece of gold was uncovered.
Its weight was 2315 Ounces and assayed at 98.6 percent pure gold. The Welcome stranger was broken up and sold for 9534 pounds.
At to-days value that would be over 2 million dollars just for the metal. As a collectors piece it would have been worth a fortune. A sketch was made of it and many plaster replicas were made of it.

Welcome Stranger 2315 Ounces

Palmer river nuggets

Nuggets from Nth Queensland

Palmer River Gold

Palmer River Specimen Side 1

Palmer River Gold Specimen

Side 2

Large gold nugget
Trimming to size!
This is what you do when they are too big ....

nice large nugget

Solid nugget

Solid Gold Nugget from
Nth Queensland

Weight: 909.6 grams
29.2 Oz

Size: 157mm x 73 mm

Found with a Minelab GP3000
20" Nugget Finder Mono SL

flat gold nugget

Side view

selecting nuggets
Take your pick

big lump of gold

Solid Gold Nugget from
Nth Queensland

Weight: 176.4 grams
5.67 Oz

Size: 72mm x 47 mm

Found with a Minelab GP3000
20" Nugget Finder Mono SL

Nugget Specimen

Nice Gold Specimen with good visible gold showing.

Weight: 36.9 grams

1.19 Oz
Size: 40mm x 29mm

gold on scales

82 Oz solid lump from NQ
2578.5 grams solid

nugget in tree
Stuck up

nine ouncer

Palmer River Beauty

Gavin and Gloria

Gavin and Gloria, proud finders of this nice solid gold nugget "The Hope Nugget" found in Central Queensland

New discoveries of gold nuggets in Far North Queensland
2006

Georgetown nuggets

144 Ounces of Unique History

Gold Nuggett

4.59 kg specimen found in Nth Qld

Found in Nth Queensland Australia, on the Etheridge Gold Fields in the Georgetown region.

Found with a Minelab GP Extreme and the stock standard 18" black DD coil at 1 meter deep.

Nuggets over 100 Ounces are extremely rare for Queensland. While pieces over 100 ounces have been quite common for Victoria and Western Australia, for Queensland this nugget is considered very large.

This unique collectors piece has been sold.

Nice to see that someone new to detecting can still find such a good lump of gold.

At 5.7 Ounces it is great to see that not all the gold is gone.

Found recently in the Georgetown Forsayth area 80+ Ounces gold nuggets and specimens.

Huge gold nugget

The smile tell the story ...