What was the biggest gold nugget found in Australia?

Answer 1

The world's largest gold nugget was found in Australia on 5 February 1869. This was the "Welcome Stranger", and it measured 61cm by 31cm. It was discovered by prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, which is about halfway between Maryborough and St Arnaud in western Victoria. Because no scales of the time could actually handle the weight of the nugget, it had to be broken into three pieces by a blacksmith in order to be weighed: it weighed in at over 2300 ounces, or 70 kilograms. Deason (Deeson) and Oates were paid £19,068 for their nugget which became known as "Welcome Stranger".

This is not the same as the large "Welcome Nugget" found in Ballarat in 1858.

Another large gold nugget found in Australia was the "Golden Eagle". It was discovered by sixteen-year-old Jim (or Jack) Larcombe on 8 January 1931 in Larkinville, Western Australia. It was found only 45cm below the surface of the ground, and it weighed 1136 troy ounces, or 35.3 kilograms. 62cm long, the nugget required two men to lift it. It was given the name "Golden Eagle" because it had an unusual resemblance to a bird.

Answer 2

The largest gold nugget ever found and recorded in Austalia was the "Welcome Stranger". It measured 61 cm by 31 cm and was discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, western Victoria, Australia on 5 February 1869 about 9 miles north-west of Dunolly and half-way between Maryborough and St Arnaud. It weighed 2316 troy ounces or 72.04 kg. The finders were paid

Answer 3

Largest gold nugget ever found

A 2,332 ounce nugget named the Welcome Stranger Nugget, was found near Moliagul, Victoria, Australia on the 5th of February, 1869. This nugget was buried just a few inches below the surface.

A specimen of what is called reef gold weighing 286 kilograms (about 630 pounds) and measuring about 150cm by 66cm was found at Hill End, New South Wales, Australia, in October of 1872. It was called the Holtermann Nugget.

Both these nuggets are sometimes listed at the world's largest, but it may be unclear why. It is possibly due to the fact that what is clearly the larger of the two, the Holtermann Nugget, is "reef gold" rather than what might be called a "nugget" of gold. As to reef gold, gold sometimes appears as a "vein" included in rock, frequently quartz. In this case it was, indeed, a quartz reef. By removing the rock around the vein, the gold included in that vein can be recovered in one piece. And that was the case with the Holtermann Nugget.

What is currently the largest nugget currently on display is probably the Hand of Faith Nugget. This 875 troy ounce (61 pounds, 11 ounce) nugget was discovered in 1980 by the use of a metal detector. It was buried some six inches below the surface of the ground near Wedderburn, Australia.

Answer 4

The world's largest gold nugget was found in Australia on 5 February 1869. This was the "Welcome Stranger", and it measured 61cm by 31cm. It was discovered by prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, which is about halfway between Maryborough and St Arnaud in western Victoria.

Answer 5

The largest gold nugget found in Australia was the "Welcome Stranger", in 1869. Measuring 61cm by 31cm, it was discovered by prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul,which is about halfway between Maryborough and St Arnaud in western Victoria.

Answer 6

The largest gold nugget ever found and recorded in Austalia was the "Welcome Stranger". It measured 61 cm by 31 cm and was discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, western Victoria, Australia on 5 February 1869 about 9 miles north-west of Dunolly and half-way between Maryborough and St Arnaud. It weighed 2316 troy ounces or 72.04 kg. The finders were paid £19,068. The Welcome Stranger is not the same as the "Welcome Nugget" found in Ballarat in 1858 which was the largest single nugget prior to the discovery of the Welcome Stranger.
However, larger than this is the Beyers and Holtermann nugget, the largest single piece of reef gold ever discovered in the world. The Beyers and Holtermann nugget was, strictly speaking, not a nugget, but what is called a matrix. Weighing in around 286 kilograms(about 630 pounds), it measured 150cm by 66cm, and was worth at least £12,000 at the time it was discovered, in October 1872. It was discovered by workers at the Star of Hope Gold Mining Co on Hawkins Hill, at the Hill End goldfields in New South Wales, Australia.

Answer 7

The "Welcome Stranger" was the name given to a largest gold nugget ever found and recorded. It measured 61 cm by 31 cm and was discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, western Victoria, Australia on 5 February 1869 about 9 miles north-west of Dunolly and half-way between Maryborough and St Arnaud. It was found only 5cm below the surface on a slope leading to what was then known as Bulldog Gully and it weighed 2316 troy ounces or 72.04 kg. The finders were paid £19,068. The Welcome Stranger is not the same as the "Welcome Nugget" found in Ballarat in 1858 which was the largest single nugget prior to the discovery of the Welcome Stranger.

However, larger than this is the Beyers and Holtermann nugget, the largest single piece of reef gold ever discovered in the world. The Beyers and Holtermann nugget was, strictly speaking, not a nugget, but what is called a matrix. Weighing in around 286 kilograms(about 630 pounds), it measured 150cm by 66cm, and was worth at least £12,000 at the time it was discovered, in October 1872. It was discovered by workers at the Star of Hope Gold Mining Co on Hawkins Hill, at the Hill End goldfields in New South Wales, Australia.

Answer 8

The world's largest gold nugget was found in Australia on 5 February 1869. This was the "Welcome Stranger", and it measured 61cm by 31cm. It was discovered by prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, which is about halfway between Maryborough and St Arnaud in western Victoria.

Answer 9

it was approx 2300 troy ounces found in gympie QLD ;) still plenty of gold around there its just not as revealed as say 90 years ago :D