The world’s largest ever gold nugget, discovered in 1869 during the Australian gold rush, remains a symbol of extraordinary wealth. Weighing as much as an adult man, the Welcome Stranger gold ...

The Welcome Stranger weighed in at 3,523.5 troy ounces (about 241 pounds). At today’s gold price, the nugget would be worth $11.63 million. Unfortunately, the Welcome Stranger is no more.

Gold has always been a hot commodity. But these days, finding a nugget isn’t too tricky: Much of the world’s gold is mined from natural veins of quartz, a glassy mineral that streaks through ...

PARADISE — Despite inclement weather Saturday, locals and visitors came out to celebrate Gold Nugget Days. A rain-soaked crowd lined Skyway for the parade, a centerpiece of the annual festival ...

A replica of the Welcome Nugget, the second largest gold nugget ever discovered. Anatoli Lvov/CC BY-SA 3.0. 2 / 2. Left: A scanning electron microscope image of the quartz and gold in the experiment.

The largest gold nugget ever discovered was “Welcome Stranger,” found in Australia in 1869 weighing 156.6 pounds. It was split into fragments and split between 17 miners, according to the BBC.

The market currently prices the nugget's 15.5 troy ounces of gold at $41,900, said the Salvation Army, but its unique form and place of origin could bring a higher price at auction."Nuggets of ...

A "supergiant" deposit of high-quality gold ore containing an estimated 1,000 metric tons (1,100 US tons) ... The large gold nugget, nicknamed "Hiro's Nugget," weighing 64.8 grams.

The genesis of mining gold in North Carolina. We can trace the first instance of a documented gold discovery in the U.S. to 1799 when a young boy discovered a huge, 17-pound gold nugget during a ...