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Famous Gold Nuggets
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The Welcome gold nugget
The "Welcome Nugget" was found on 9th June, 1858 at Bakery Hill, Ballarat,
Victoria by the Red Hill Mining Company. (Other reports state it was discovered
on 15th June). The nugget weighed 2,217 ounces and 16 dwts., gold. After refining it yielded 2,195 ozs. of fine gold.
The Welcome Nugget was located at a depth of 180 feet and was apparently water-worn and of an irregular shape.
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The Welcome gold nugget
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The nugget was exhibited in Melbourne for many weeks and later sold and melted down in London in November 1859. The nugget weighed 2218 troy ounces (about 71.3 kg), measured 53 by 28 by 16 centimetres and assayed at over 99 per cent pure gold.
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Records for the "Welcome Nugget" seem by all
sources to be clear cut agreeing on all particulars. Detailed sketches of the
claim and underground location of the find with many photographs exist, for at
the time it was by far the world's largest piece of gold unearthed.
The
"Welcome Nugget" was found on 9th June, 1858 at Bakery Hill,
Ballarat, Victoria. A party of 24 worked the claim and therefore all claimed
part of the fame involved in unearthing a nugget weighing 2,217 ounces and 16
dwts., gold. After refining it yielded 2,195 ozs. of fine gold. Comparatively
its fame was short lived.
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