Luck smiled at an amateur prospector in Australia, after painstaking research in the red dirt of New South Wales led him to discover a rare gold nugget whose value was estimated at between 150,000 and 160,000 US dollars.
This valuable discovery came after days of fruitless searches at the “Mount Stewart” station near the “Tiboburra” area in the far northwest of the state, where the prospector was accustomed to finding only discarded metal waste such as old nails and horse shoes.
In the details of the incident, the metal detector issued a weak signal at first, but it became stronger as the digging went deeper, so the prospector noticed a bright yellow sparkle in the soil, and documented the moment of removing the gold nugget in a video clip posted on social media platforms, in which he appeared in a state of astonishment and great joy.
The discovered mass was named “Tibobora Potato,” and its total weight was about 1.2 kilograms mixed with quartz, while tests showed that the weight of pure gold in it was about 940 grams. Although its current value is estimated at between 150,000 and 160,000 dollars, the final price may rise in value in light of the discoverer’s plans to sell it to a collector of rare collectibles.
