PROSPECTORS LUCK.
17-OUNCE NUGGET.
MELBOURNE, July 17.
A nugget of gold weighing nearly 17 ounces was found at Dark Corner yesterday by a prospector named Herbert Shumack. It is valued at £7O. A former prospector had cut a trench to within a couple of inches of this nugget, and another stroke of the pick would have unearthed it. A riehy patch was struck in this same gully some years ago," one get weighing 20 ounces being found, as Avell as several smaller ones. All the ground in the vicinity has been taken up, and prospectors are at work trying to locate the reef from which the gold has been shed.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14725, 2 August 1921, Page 6
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