Holtermann gold nugget - photo

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:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...906#post187029
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...268#post184959
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...905#post171507
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...543#post170216
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...768#post174961

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

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Originally Posted by mwmkravchenko

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

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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 :)

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Originally Posted by odd one

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 :)

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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?

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?

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

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Originally Posted by WmRMeyers

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

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Cool. Very informative.

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Originally Posted by mwmkravchenko

Cool. Very informative.

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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.

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Originally Posted by mwmkravchenko

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?

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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.

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.

Reminds me of the scene in the movie Pale Rider where the old miner finds the huge nugget and then gets hammered. Ultimately, he ends up getting blown away because he threatens to shove the nugget up the arse of the movie's lead antagonist...