Prospector discovers 4.6kg nugget using metal detector as gold prices near global record highs
Kamp valued the rock in its entirety at $240,000 as today’s gold prices are nearing“I’ve been prospecting for 43 years. And I haven’t seen a specimen in this amount of gold in my 43 years of prospecting,” Kamp said. “Maybe in the 1850s there was probably a few found, but in today’s terms it’s very rare.
“I’ve dreamt of finding something this big myself. The largest I’ve ever found prospecting was 24 ounce 12 years ago.” Part of the prospector’s “incredible” luck, Kamp said, is that he made the find with a $1,200 machine at the very lowest end of the pricing range for detectors. Kamp said that if the nugget had been any deeper than the 12 inches in the ground where it was found, only a more expensive machine could have picked it up.
Kamp bought the nugget off the prospector and named it “Lucky Strike”. A multimeter test confirmed the gold was interconnected throughout the rock, he said.has predicted there could be as much as 75m ounces of undiscovered gold across the central and north central Victorian goldfields, compared with 80m ounces which has been mined from the area since the days of the gold rush.
Lynnie Hindle, the president of the Bendigo branch of the Prospectors and Miners Association of Victoria , said: “If a big nugget is found, it always creates a new gold rush.”
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