1 POUND GOLD NUGGET




Several years ago, I was on a prospecting trip in Arizona with a group of people. While I was busy checking out an alluvial fan with my metal detector, I ran into another man who was busy doing the same thing. We struck up a conversation, hunted the rest of the day together, I hadn't found anything yet, and was getting a little frustrated, Nick noticed this, so when I wasn't looking he threw a one pound gold nugget in front of my search coil, one pound gold nugget I was amazed to see such a large nugget, because I had never seen anything that big in my life. He finally confessed that he had found it in Australia and that he was a professional nugget hunter, and did it for a living. He said he spends six months out of the year in Australia and finds enough gold to take the rest of the year off. He said he had just sold a gold nugget that was just a little bit smaller than the one he was showing me for $10,000.00 dollars. He showed me a special metal detector that he had made for him. It had a 15 inch search coil on it, he said he doesn't waste his time searching for the small nuggets only the large ones. I know this much, holding that one pound gold nugget in my hands has definitely made me add one more goal to my life and that is, nugget hunting in Australia.

















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