![]() ![]() Kamp said that if the nugget had been any deeper than the 12 inches in the ground where it was found, only a more expensive machine could have picked it up. Part of the prospector’s “incredible” luck, Kamp said, is that he made the find with a $1,200 machine at the very lowest end of the pricing range for detectors. The largest I’ve ever found prospecting was 24 ounce 12 years ago.” “I’ve dreamt of finding something this big myself. “Maybe in the 1850s there was probably a few found, but in today’s terms it’s very rare. And I haven’t seen a specimen in this amount of gold in my 43 years of prospecting,” Kamp said. The amount of gold in the rock came out at 83 ounces. ![]() Kamp valued the rock in its entirety at $240,000 as today’s gold prices are nearing global record highs. “He said ‘but that’s only half the rock, the other half is at home’.” ![]()
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