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Two gold nuggets are claimed as the largest in the world: the Welcome Stranger and the Canaã nugget, the latter being the largest surviving natural nugget. Considered by most authorities to be the biggest gold nugget ever found, the Welcome Stranger was found at Moliagul, Victoria, Australia in 1869 by John Deason and Richard Oates.
20 Νοε 2020 · While the Welcome Stranger is the largest gold nugget ever discovered, the single biggest gold specimen ever found is the Holtermann. Dug up in October 1872 by German miner Bernhardt Holtermann at Hill End in New South Wales, it was crushed, and the gold extracted.
21 Δεκ 2023 · Though not technically the largest single piece of gold ever found, this “Beyers and Holtermann Nugget” contained an estimated 3,000 troy ounces of gold mixed within a large quartz rock specimen, making it the largest mass of gold ever discovered.
24 Δεκ 2018 · Pepita Canaã is the largest gold nugget in the world today. This astounding chunk of gold is currently displayed in the “Gold Room” in the Museu de Valores do Banco Central in Brazil. It was purchased by the Banco Central do Brazil just one year after discovery.
The largest gold nugget found using a metal detector is the Hand of Faith, weighing 875 troy ounces (27.2 kg; 60.0 lb), found in Kingower, Victoria, Australia in 1980. Historic large specimens include the crystalline "Fricot Nugget", weighing 201 troy ounces (6.3 kg; 13.8 lb) – the largest one found during the California Gold Rush.
22 Οκτ 2024 · The largest gold nugget currently in existence is the Canaã Nugget, also known as the Pepita Canaa. This colossal hunk of gold was discovered in 1983 by a miner named Júlio de Deus Filho while working in the Serra Pelada mine in the state of Pará, Brazil.
Ironstone’s Crown Jewel is the world’s largest piece of crystalline gold. [1] At 44 lbs troy (16.4 kg), it is substantially larger than the Fricot "Nugget" (13.8 lb troy; 5.15 kg) [2] and the Whopper (11.7 lb troy; 4.37 kg), [3] the next two largest specimens.
