Posted on 03/10/2015 2:03:18 AM PDT by dennisw
Sydney - A prospector in Australia found a gold nugget weighing 2.7kgs, and worth a whopping US$103 400, a Melbourne-based newspaper reported Tuesday.
Mick Brown was scanning an area in Wedderburn, Victoria with a metal detector when he made the find several weeks ago, The Age said.
He dubbed it "Fair Dinkum." The nugget is estimated to be worth 135,000 Australian dollars (approximately US$103 400).
Brown told the newspaper he thought he was facing a "big molten blob of copper" when his metal detector went off.
But a few centimetres below the surface parts of the nugget were visible.
"I thought bugger me, it is, it's bloody gold," Brown was quoted as saying in the report.
He said hoped to sell the nugget to a private collector, pay off his debt and spend money on his wife and children.
Wedderburn is located in Victoria's the so-called golden triangle, the centre of a gold rush in the mid-1800s.
The area is popular with amateur prospectors and several have found large nuggets.
In 1981, a man found a nugget weighing a record 8kgs at Wedderburn.
The nugget dubbed the Pride of Australia was stolen from a Melbourne museum a decade later and never recovered.
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bugger me????..... TRANSLATION NEEDED!
It means exactly what you think it means.
Time for the happy prospector dance!
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So that’s where I put it!
bugger me????..... TRANSLATION NEEDED!
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It’s what 0 says to Reggie every night.
rather...
it’s what Obama has done to America for the last 6 years.
[...it’s what Obama has done to America for the last 6 years.]
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If he ever leaves office, I can just imagine him saying...’better put some ice on that’.
I hear Global Warming is especially bad down under, but I had no idea it had gotten this bad.
“Eureka” by Peter FitzSimons is a fascinating book on the Australian gold rush. I really like this author who also penned “Tobruk” and “Batavia”. Great Australian history if you’re so inclined. The Aussie gold rush made ours look like a penny in the parking lot.
So that’s why the price of gold dropped last weekend!
Usually done in whore houses
Well, buggering is generally referenced as anal sex.
In this context, I think it means “F me”.
How come I never find stuff like that?
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