The largest nugget of gold ever found was the Welcome Stranger nugget, discovered in Australia in 1869, weighing approximately 2316 troy ounces (72 kg).
The Welcome Stranger is the biggest pure gold nugget ever found, discovered in Australia in 1869. It weighed a whopping 2,284 ounces (about 158 pounds) and was valued at the time of discovery at around $10,000.
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The biggest gold nugget was found in Australia in 1869 and weighed 78 kg
The gold nugget found in 1858 at Bakery Hill near Ballarat was the "Welcome Nugget". This is different from the "Welcome Stranger", which was the name given to a largest gold nugget ever found and recorded.
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The biggest gold nugget found in the Mojave desert weighed 156 troy ounces. It was discovered in 1977 by a prospector using a metal detector.
The Holterman Nugget was found in Hill End in NSW on 19 October, 1872. It was the largest single nugget ever discovered anywhere, although strictly speaking, it was not really a single nugget but rather a mass of gold found in a reef.
The largest single piece of gold ever found is the "Welcome Stranger" nugget, discovered in Australia in 1869. It weighed 2,520 troy ounces (78 kilograms) and measured approximately 24 inches in length.