One of the biggest gold nuggets found in modern times in Northern California’s historic Gold Country is going up for sale. Weighing in at 6.07 pounds, the Butte Nugget is expected to carry a price tag of $350,000. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday that the nugget’s finder asked dealer Don Kagin to keep his name and the location of the discovery secret. […]
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Treasure Hunt Frenzy: Britons Seek Gold and Riches in Shipwreck After Lucky Beachgoer Discovers £50k Nugget
GEOFF ROBINSON It is almost twice as heavy as the UK’s second biggest nugget, which was found in Cornwall Vincent Thurkettle, 60, was stunned to see the incredible 97.12g (3oz) nugget of gold gleaming in a crevice on the sea bed off the coast of Anglesey. It is almost twice as heavy as the […]
Rare Gold Nuggets, Long Linked to the Klondike, Now Scarcer Than Ever
Gold nuggets, almost synonymous with the Yukon, are becoming more rare in a territory where a gold panner is on the licence plates. Tara Christie, who grew up on various placer mining creeks in the Klondike region, said it has always been the case that some creeks had nuggets while others had hardly any. But she […]
Gold Rush Revolution: Women Prospectors Leave Their Mark in Australia’s Outback
The popular series inspired the 49-year-old to hire a detector when she was on a weekend camping trip to Maryborough, a small town north of Ballarat in the heart of Victoria’s goldfields. Jen Walsh and (right) the 52 grams of gold she dug up last month. (Facebook: Chicks with Picks) Stepping a few metres […]
Discovery of Old Regime’s Gold Reserves
Spring 1999, vol. 31, no. 1 By Greg Bradsher Late on the evening of March 22, 1945, elements of Lt. Gen. George Patton’s Third Army crossed the Rhine, and soon thereafter his whole army crossed the river and drove into the heart of Germany. Advancing northeast from Frankfurt, elements of the Third Army cut […]