Holtermann 'Nugget': 10,229 ounces (290kg)
While the Welcome Stranger is the largest gold nugget ever found, the biggest single gold specimen discovered on the planet is the Holtermann 'Nugget'. Unearthed in October 1872 by German-born miner Bernhardt Holtermann at Hill End in New South Wales, Australia, the gold-embedded-in-quartz specimen weighed a staggering 10,229 ounces (290kg). The rock was valued at £12,000, which is £1.1 million ($1.4m) in today's money, before it was crushed and the gold extracted.
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Daniel Coughlin
04 December 2023
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