Holtermann gold nugget - photo

[Altair]

The Holtermann gold nugget was the largest gold specimen ever found. It measured 59 inches (1.5 m) long and weighed 630 pounds (290 kg). Soon after its discovery, it was crushed and melted down to extract its gold.

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More:

https://australian.museum/blog/amri-...ermann-nugget/


Previously:

Mojave gold nugget - photos
Weighing gold at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY - photo
Making a 1-kilo gold chain - video
Saddam Hussein's gold-plated AK-47 - photos and video
1935 Sumpter Valley gold dredge - photo

[mwmkravchenko]

Interesting where I come from 4 foot 9 inches is 57 inches total.

[odd one]

Interesting where I come from 4 foot 9 inches is 57 inches total.

That's 4'9'' in freedom units. Looks like it was from the UK. But I suppose where you are from, it could go either way

[mwmkravchenko]

That's 4'9'' in freedom units. Looks like it was from the UK. But I suppose where you are from, it could go either way

Australia was the place if I read it correctly.

Either way? Hah! We have this big American holdout, along with Liberia that likes inches. So we end up using inches. I use both. The rest of the world uses Metric. As in the 7 billion others. Slow to change?

[Hoosiersmoker]

Even if only 600 lbs of it were actually gold, in today's dollars it would be worth only about $19,000,000 US! I wonder how many more nuggets like that there are in undiscovered deposits globally?

[WmRMeyers]

Just FYI: https://demonocracy.info/infographic...gold/gold.html

[mwmkravchenko]

Just FYI: https://demonocracy.info/infographic...gold/gold.html

Cool. Very informative.

[WmRMeyers]

Cool. Very informative.

I thought so. What I was looking for was the one that just showed a cube of gold relative to some other stuff. This one is much better. Wish I could find something similar for iron, but a shallow look hasn't worked.

[odd one]

Australia was the place if I read it correctly.

Either way? Hah! We have this big American holdout, along with Liberia that likes inches. So we end up using inches. I use both. The rest of the world uses Metric. As in the 7 billion others. Slow to change?

That makes a whole lot more since it being Australia. I just saw the currency and "assumed", just proving the old adage....and the fact that it says Australia under the pic. Do not recall the UK having large gold deposits.

[Floradawg]

That gold nugget would have been worth far more than the value of the gold if it was never melted down. Auctioned off today there's no telling what it would bring.