By comparison, a nugget that weighs only one troy ounce is about as rare as a five-carat diamond. Golden Beauty is among the largest golden nuggets ever found in Australia. CREDIT: Heritage Auctions.

This piece of gold measures nearly 7.5 inches across and weighs more than 9 pounds. It ended up in a private Swiss collection ...

On February 5, 1869, two miners, John Deason and Richard Oats, stumbled upon what would become the largest gold nugget ever found. “It is a great story of two guys instantly becoming fabulously ...

During the Australian gold rush, the world’s largest nugget was found by miners originating from the UK. On 5 February 1869, ...

If you can’t afford the Golden Beauty, a second nugget is also on the auction block. It weighs in at 15.52 ounces, just over ...

An Australian couple was searching for gold using a metal detector in the Kalgoorlie Goldfields in 1979 when they uncovered the largest gold nugget found in the region in the previous 50 years.

Experts say that even finding a one-ounce gold nugget is harder than finding a five-carat diamond. This underscores gold’s ...

Here’s how it works. The largest gold nugget ever found in England was discovered by a man using a faulty metal detecting device. Metal detectorist Richard Brock unearthed the chunk of gold last ...

In 1887, miners Tom Groves and Harry Lytton found the largest gold nugget in Colorado history. The nugget was located near Breckenridge around an area called Farncomb Hill. While there are many ...

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