NUGGET OF GOLD PLOUGHED UP
YOUNG FARMER BENEFITS BY £9OO (Received April 16, 12.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April 15. While a young farmer, Stuart Hurnall, was ploughing on his father's farm near Ararat he unearthed a solid nugget of gold a few inches below the surface. When it was weighed at the Royal Mint at Melbourne to-day the nugget turned the scale at 120.6 ounces. It is valued at £9OO.
A good deal of mining was done in the Ararat neighbourhood in the early days of the Victorian goldfields.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21759, 16 April 1936, Page 11
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