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Gold nugget found near Ballarat[Australia- 12 pounds]
The Courier ^
| 17 Jan 2013
| Dellaram Vreeland
Posted on 01/17/2013 9:45:27 AM PST by Theoria
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Nice Bahog!
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posted on
01/17/2013 9:45:32 AM PST
by
Theoria
To: Theoria
Only two feet deep. That’s a good metal detector but that is also highly reflective target!
To: Theoria
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posted on
01/17/2013 9:48:53 AM PST
by
DocRock
(All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
To: Theoria
Wow!! Cool!!
I've actually been to Ballarat..and visited a mine.
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posted on
01/17/2013 9:49:28 AM PST
by
Osage Orange
(MOLON LABE)
To: SkyDancer
Janey,
Please bring me back one.
Thank You!
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posted on
01/17/2013 9:55:56 AM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: Theoria
Some overpaid gangsta rapper will buy it so he can hang it around his neck.
Nice find though. I'd like to see it find its way to a museum.
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posted on
01/17/2013 9:57:45 AM PST
by
South40
To: Osage Orange
My great great granddad was in that area in the early 1850s looking for gold
along with 1000s of others
:)
I found that he sailed out of New York City to Melbourne...
He didnt do too good in Aussie so he moved on NZ...
again the goldfields were srowded...
he got little gold..
but he found himself a wife...
]
so he found a good thing after all...
:)
Except for the way he traveled and got there his history and travels are written in the flyleaves of his family Bible...
To: Theoria
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posted on
01/17/2013 10:16:12 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Theoria
I don’t know where they come up with the half a million dollars figure. At 177 ounces it’s worth about half that. Even if you take into account that they may be talking Australian dollars (about 1.05 USD) they’re still way off.
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posted on
01/17/2013 10:20:32 AM PST
by
youngidiot
(God help us.)
To: Theoria
It's not about having the gold.
It's about finding the gold.
To: youngidiot
Jeez, just read that part of the article. Never mind.
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posted on
01/17/2013 10:21:49 AM PST
by
youngidiot
(God help us.)
To: youngidiot
A nugget, especially one so rare, will bring much more at auction than the current spot price of the gold.
To: Theoria
I love stories like this. I watched a show on NATGEO about the
Bahia Emerald which is said to be the largest emerald ever discovered. It was very interesting because the State of California has it in its possession because six or so groups of people are laying claim to it.
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posted on
01/17/2013 10:32:44 AM PST
by
Sawdring
To: eCSMaster
I read that but I just don’t believe it. Gold is gold. Gold dust isn’t worth less per ounce. But maybe they’re right maybe there’s a sucker out there.
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posted on
01/17/2013 10:33:31 AM PST
by
youngidiot
(God help us.)
To: youngidiot
Nuggets over 4 ounces normally get double spot price, or 2x the price of gold per ounce. It’s a jewlery/collectors item thingie.
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posted on
01/17/2013 11:10:47 AM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: Theoria
Looks like a painted rock........
To: youngidiot
No sweat, we were all youngidiots at one time. Look forward to your future when you can be an oldidiot. That’s when the fun starts.
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posted on
01/17/2013 12:27:04 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable-John F. Kennedy)
To: KC_Lion
I’m looking for me own LOL
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posted on
01/17/2013 1:30:25 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: B4Ranch
No sweat, we were all youngidiots at one time. Look forward to your future when you can be an oldidiot. That’s when the fun starts.
I'm 40 for God's sake.
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posted on
01/17/2013 2:07:59 PM PST
by
youngidiot
(God help us.)
To: Theoria
This is BS!!! Look at that photo.. A gold ‘nugget’ of that size would weigh FAR MORE than 12 pounds and the way he handles it in the video is not commensurate with the weight it would be!! BS alert!!
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