Largest Gold Nuggets Ever Found
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 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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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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The "Welcome Stranger" was the largest gold nugget ever discovered, and was found by two men named John Deason and Richard Oates, on Friday February 5, 1869 at Moliagul, Victoria. Interestingly when this piece of gold was discovered, no scales that were capable of weighing a nugget of this size were available, and so it was broken into three.
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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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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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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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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). The Welcome Stranger is the biggest alluvial gold nugget ever discovered, and was unearthed by Cornish miners John Deason and Richard Oates on 5 February 1869, 9 miles north-west of Dunolly, Australia.
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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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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.
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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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The world-famous Welcome Stranger nugget is the largest-known alluvial gold nugget ever found, estimated to weigh a total of 72 kilos and containing almost 2,300oz of gold. After its discovery in 1869 it sold for about 10,000 British pounds, which is the equivalent to AUD $3-4 million today. The nugget was discovered near the Victorian.
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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 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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The 'Welcome Stranger' was found on 5 February 1869 by Cornish miner John Deason, who was working in Bulldog Gully, near Moliagul in central Victoria. While searching around the roots of a tree he discovered, 3 cm below the surface, a gold nugget. He concealed his find until dark, then with his partner, Richard Oates, dug it out. They then held a party during which they revealed their find to.