ENORMOUS NUGGET FOUND
COLD WEIGHING 78 POUNDS
KALGOORLIE BOY’S DISCOVERY.
LUMP 2 FEET. LONG. WORTH £5500.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.-—Copyright. Sydney, Jan. 16. A sensation was caused when a boy at Kalgoorlie picked up a nugget gold weighing 781 b. and worth £5500. The find is *26 inches long, 12 inches wide, and three inches thick. PREVIOUS HUGE FINDS. £12,000 IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Some huge nuggets of gold were found in Australia from 1851 to 1872 in Victoria and New South Wales, but the present find is the biggest recorded outside these States. Some of the principal nuggets found in Australia are:—
The present find is all the more valuable owing to there being a Federal bounty or 20s per ounce on all gold produced in Australia.
Place. Weight. Value. OZcS. £ Hill End (N.S.W. ) .. 7560 12,000 Moliague (V.) . .... 2284 9,534 Ballarat (V.) .. .... 2217 9,325 Canadian Gully (V.) 1117 7,500 Kingower (V.) .... 1743 6,915 Canadian Gully (V.) 1619 5,532 Dunolly (V.) .. .... 2952 5,500
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1931, Page 7
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