There isn’t a lot of information about this discovery of the gold nugget known as the Austrox Nugget. It was found somewhere in Western Australia, not by a major mining company, but by three small-scale prospectors using metal detectors. And while most of the world’s largest gold nuggets were found back during the 1800s, this […]
The Fricot Gold Nugget is one of the finest crystalline gold specimens in existence today. It was discovered in Eldorado County, California in 1865. Located in the heart of California’s Mother Lode Country, Eldorado County is well known for producing some spectacular museum grade gold nugget since the days of the early gold rush. Numerous […]
The Mojave nugget is a huge chunk of gold discovered by Ty Paulsen in 1977. It was said to have been discovered using a metal detector in the area of Randsburg, California in Kern County. As part of the Stringer Mining District, the Mojave nugget is not the only large nugget to have come from […]
The largest gold nugget ever found in Alaska was discovered in 1998. It was recovered from a placer mining operation near the small town of Ruby, Alaska by Barry Clay. He was moving material with a bulldozer along Swift Creek when something unusual caught his attention. He jumped out of his dozer and examined the […]
Australia is famous for producing the largest gold nuggets in the world. By far, the biggest gold nuggets ever recovered in history have come from Australia, and huge gold nuggets are still being found by lucky prospectors even today. Below are three of the biggest gold nuggets ever found in Australia. Beyer Holtermann Nugget […]