January 24 , 1849
the welcome stranger is the largest gold nugget ever to be discovered and it's bigger than the welcome nugget
Gold was known from the most ancient times. We wouldn't know who discovered the first nugget, or even where it might have been found.
Jackson and Hughes 1907.
I am not sure but I think it is the Welcome nugget
5 February 1869
If you are asking the first gold nugget ever found, then there is no way to know. In the California Gold rush, however, the first nugget was found on January 24, 1848, by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California.
The first gold nugget was found in 1848 at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. This discovery sparked the California Gold Rush, attracting thousands of prospectors and significantly impacting the westward expansion of the United States. James W. Marshall, the mill's carpenter, discovered the nugget while working on the mill, leading to a surge in gold mining activities in the region.
46.497 kilograms
Well I think John Marshall discovered gold near Sutter's mill.
There is no nugget known as the 'Welcome Home' gold nugget. There are two famous nuggets with "Welcome" in their name.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.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.
in the prehistoric times!
Hargraves did not actually find any gold nuggets himself. His offsider John Lister, was the one who actually found the gold, and it was not in the form of a large nugget. The gold was payable, but it was in smaller nuggets that were not named.