An amateur explorer from Australia, who traveled through the “golden triangle of Victoria”, made an unexpected discovery: a man found a solid piece of gold, reports LADBible.
To search for metal, the man, whose name is not mentioned in the media, used the most affordable budget device Minelab Equinox 800 worth $1,200.
While working on one of the sites in Ballarat, the seeker dug up a “massive piece of land” and later realized that he had become rich.
“An amateur researcher took a” stone piece” weighing 4.6 kilograms to a local geological shop for gold prospectors to find out its value. He expected that the cost of the precious metal found would be no more than 10 thousand dollars, but the estimate turned out to be 20 times more expensive,” – writes the source.
The fact is that more than half the weight of the rock was gold weighing about 2.6 kilograms. Thus, the total price of the find was approximately 240 thousand dollars.
“It’s one of those things that changes lives forever. When he put it in my hand, my jaw dropped,” gold dealer Darren Kamp told Australian TV channel 9News.
The shocked seller admitted that he had been working in the gold mining industry for 43 years and it was the largest piece of gold he had ever seen.
“I have seen quite large specimens found underground by large gold mining companies, but this is the largest specimen found with a metal detector that I have seen,” the trader shared his emotions.
The appraiser told reporters that when he asked what he would do with the treasure, the client only answered uncertainly that “my wife would be very happy about it.”
Darren Camp is confident that this unexpected find proves that there is still a lot of gold in the hills of Victoria.
“You just need a little luck and perseverance. It’s like a lottery: you’ll never win if you don’t buy a ticket,” an experienced geologist shared inspirational advice.
In fact, the Victorian Geological Survey predicted that up to 75 million ounces of undiscovered gold could lie in the state’s goldfields, compared to the 80 million ounces mined in the area since the gold rush in the mid-19th century.