The two friends, from Western Australia, had been prospecting for decades. But their luck struck twice when they uncovered this whopping haul recently.
A pair of “good mates” in the country’s west are reportedly now more than $160,000 richer after unearthing multiple large gold nuggets during a single prospecting mission.
James Allison, Amalgamated Prospectors and Leaseholders Association of Western Australia’s president, said the two men were trying their luck at Sandstone, a small town some 400km north-west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, when they uncovered serious treasure recently.
Allison told the Kalgoorlie Miner the two men had been prospecting for decades, but at the end of May, they came across a one-ounce nugget worth more than $5,000. Later that same day, their luck struck again in a big way when their detector picked up a second very promising sound.
It prompted the men to dig up another piece buried at about 250mm deep and weighing 895 grams, which at today’s values puts it at a whopping $161,000, based on the Perth Mint spot price as of June. Allison said the men celebrated over a beer later that evening and continued to prospect the following day, with the incredible find making front page news on Wednesday.
Extracted from: https://au.news.yahoo.com/pair-of-aussie-mates-make-incredible-161000-discovery-deep-in-the-outback-022049376.html?guccounter=1
