the rosetta nugget was the biggest+King george the fifth turned it into a tea set :)
The largest nugget of gold ever found was the Welcome Stranger nugget, discovered in Australia in 1869, weighing approximately 2316 troy ounces (72 kg).
I'm not sure if this is still true but last time i checked it was the size of an egg and i think it was found in Africa. Discuss if you disagree.
The "Pride of Australia" gold nugget was found by a prospector named Rafael Selman in 2016 in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. Weighing 3.23 kilograms, it is one of the largest gold nuggets ever discovered in the region.
The "Welcome Stranger" was the name given to the 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. As to reef gold, gold sometimes appears as a "vein" included in rock, frequently quartz. In this case it was 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 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, about 40km north of Moliagul, where the Welcome Stranger was found.
It is a gold nugget that was found on the bedrock. It is a chunk of gold, maybe bb sized or larger. Larger than dust or sand. More like a pebble or rock sized. A gold nugget is a clump of gold that is small and very precious. To find one in the 1850s gold rush would be a huge achievement.
The largest nugget of gold ever found was the Welcome Stranger nugget, discovered in Australia in 1869, weighing approximately 2316 troy ounces (72 kg).
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The biggest gold nugget was found in Australia in 1869 and weighed 78 kg
The gold nugget found in 1858 at Bakery Hill near Ballarat was the "Welcome Nugget". This is different from the "Welcome Stranger", which was the name given to a largest gold nugget ever found and recorded.
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The biggest gold nugget found during the Australian gold rush was the "Welcome Stranger," discovered in 1869 near Moliagul, Victoria. Weighing approximately 72 kilograms (158.8 pounds), this massive nugget was found by prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates just a few inches below the surface. The nugget was later melted down and sold for a significant sum, making it a legendary find in Australian history.
It was found in North Carolina in the 1800;s
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Found while driving the washes with a Jeep and 5 metal detectors tied to the front of Jeep
The Holterman Nugget was found in Hill End in NSW on 19 October, 1872. It was the largest single nugget ever discovered anywhere, although strictly speaking, it was not really a single nugget but rather a mass of gold found in a reef.
The largest single piece of gold ever found is the "Welcome Stranger" nugget, discovered in Australia in 1869. It weighed 2,520 troy ounces (78 kilograms) and measured approximately 24 inches in length.