Welcome Stranger, the largest gold stone in the world

During the XNUMXth century there was a true gold rush here in Australia, just as it happened everywhere in the world where someone found a vein or a nugget of this precious metal. The United States or South Africa come to mind, but here too things took on gigantic dimensions and there was a lot of migration of people, railways were extended and towns were born.

Well, I guess finding gold is like winning the lottery, right? One minute you are poor, or at least you are not rich, and the next you have become a millionaire. It is not overnight but from one minute to the next. Well something like that happened to John Deason and Richard Oates on February 5, 1869 in the state of Victoria. These two men were miners and that day they found a 72,04 kg gold stone. The stone measured 61 cm x 31 cm and was renamed Welcome stranger. In reality, this deposit became the largest such deposit in the world.

The two miners cleaned the stone by removing other attachments and then they moved it to have it appraised, but those remains weigh 2268 ounces and today they are still worth a lot of money. From that discovery only the site remains in a fastanasma town called Moliagul where a monolith has been erected as a reminder of such luck. A replica of the gold stone rests in the City Museum at Treasury Place, in Melbourne. Oh, and a century later and a metal detector in nearby Wedderburn found another 27,2 kg stone called Hands of Faith and valued at 1 million dollars. What's left of him is on display… in Las Vegas!