NUGGET WORTH £9OOO
TURNED UP BY PLOUGH FIND NEAR ARARAT 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, which, when weighed at the Royal Mint, Melbourne, to-day, went 120.60 z. It is valued at £9OO. A good deal of mining was done at Ararat and in the neighbourhood in the early days of the Victorian goldfields.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18991, 16 April 1936, Page 5
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78NUGGET WORTH £9000 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18991, 16 April 1936, Page 5
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