The story of the largest gold nugget ever found/unique.planet/
The people who dream of getting rich quick are willing to try almost anything to achieve this goal, but unlike the unstable world of online trading and internet investing, gold is known to hold its value and it even went up about 13% in 2023 and here is its advantage.
The prices of the yellow metal rose for two consecutive months when at the beginning of December the price of gold per unit (ounce) reached a peak of 2100 dollars - a climb of over 10% but then fell by 2%.
This is a record of more than three years, after the previous record - 2,069 dollars per unit, was set in August 2020, when according to experts in the field gold prices are expected to reach new records next year and even remain above levels of 2,000 dollars.
Unfortunately, however, even if you've found the largest gold nugget in history, that doesn't mean you're set for life.
This is what happened when the largest gold nugget ever was found, in February 1869 in Victoria, Australia.
Two miners named John Deason and Richard Oates discovered the gold nugget during their prospecting.
Dubbed the "Blessed Stranger," the nugget weighed 72 kilograms (158.7 pounds) and was 61 centimeters (24 inches) long. The two men took the gold to the town of Dunolly to be weighed at the Bank of London. The nugget was so large that it didn't top the scale. , so they had to break it before filming it.
The two men received a little less than 10,000 pounds for this enormous gold (a sum that is equivalent today to 743,000 Australian dollars, which is about one million and 700 thousand shekels) and the block itself was smashed and melted into gold bars.
The BBC estimates that a similar block would have been found Today it was estimated at about two million pounds (more than 9 million shekels)
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The largest intact gold nugget was discovered by Julio de Daus in Brazil in 1983.
It weighs 60 kg and is currently on display in the "Gold Room" of the Museu de Valores do Banco Central in Brasilia.
The development of technology has played a role in some great gold discoveries such as the case of the "Hand of Faith" nugget found in 1980 by Kevin Hillier, the gold nugget The largest ever found by a metal detector. Although it was also discovered on the continent of Australia, this extraordinary nugget, weighing 27 kg, is now on display in a Las Vegas casino after selling for over a million dollars.
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Experts estimate that there are still under the surface of the sea about 15,000 tons of gold that have not yet been found, worth about 800 billion dollars, and about 57,000 tons of gold reserves that are still waiting to be mined underground, to be added to the 197,000 tons of gold that humans have already found when the value of all the gold In the world it stood at 11.5 trillion dollars (as of November 2021).
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