An amateur gold hunter Down Under hit pay dirt in March when he stumbled on a massive nugget worth a cool quarter million.
The finder, who wished to remain anonymous, was scanning Victoria’s “golden triangle” between St Arnaud, Bendigo, and Ballarat when he heard his detector sound.
The man brought the gold specimen to gold expert Darren Kamp, operator of Lucky Strike Gold Prospecting in Newcomb, to have it appraised.
“He came into our shop and was asking some basic questions about pin-pointers and other equipment and he pulled a rock out of his backpack and said, ‘Do you think there would be $10,000 worth of gold in this?’” Kamp told The Epoch Times. “He dropped it into my hand….