Divers on gold trail
NZPA-Reuter Vancouver Gold-hunting scuba divers from across Canada will converge on a British Columbia lake next month in search of what could be the world's biggest gold nugget. Magnus Jemberg. aged 82. has staked six mineral claims in the area after linking a smashed rowing boat which he found 50 years ago with a story that a giant nugget, valued at about SNZ3O million, was. lost in the lake in 1892. He read an old letter, published in the local newspaper, from a prospector who described how he and three friends found a rock that was “100 per cent pure virgin gold." They tried to lift it into a rowing boat, but it crashed through the bottom and sank into the lake, said the letter. Mr Jernberg has invited scuba divers to join the hunt, and has offered 10 per cent of the nugget s value if it is found.
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Press, 12 March 1983, Page 11
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