An amateur gold digger has found an enormous gold nugget worth 240,000 AUD ($160,000) in Australia
Discovered in the state of Victoria in an area known as the"Golden Triangle," the gold-filled rock weighs 4.6 kilograms , with the precious metal making up 2.6 kilograms .
"When it hit my hand, my jaw dropped with it," Kamp told CNN on Tuesday."It was just incredible. Once-in-a-lifetime find."Kamp has been in the business of gold prospecting for 43 years and said he has"never seen a rock of this size with that amount of gold in it." A lot of the time, people go to the shop with a rock that looks like gold but is not, he added.
The rock was very dirty so the spotter, who does not want to be named, could not see the gold on the outside of it, and he cracked it into two because he thought there would be a gold nugget inside, said Kamp.
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