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Farmer unearths $100,000 nugget

Farmer unearths $100,000 nugget
March 8, 2005

A VICTORIAN farmer has unearthed a golden goose – a 1.5kg gold nugget in the state's north.

Five prospecting friends were testing new picks a fortnight ago when one of them, identified only as Roger, made the find about 1m underground.

The nugget resembles the head of a goose.

"I just saw the size and I thought jeez, I finally found a big one," Roger told the ABC.

"It's just something that you never ever dream about."

The nugget is worth about $40,000 melted down but it could fetch up to $100,000 in its rare natural form.

It will be kept in a bank vault until it is sold on online auction site eBay.

"All we've got to do now is find the other part of the goose," Roger said.

AAP


LINK: http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=2781514