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Ironically, in 1894, just one year after Colorado’s silver mining crashed with this massive thud, the largest silver nugget ever found was discovered in the Smuggler Mine near Aspen, CO. And I do mean large. The original nugget was believed to weigh about 2,340 pounds, but this was too large to be brought from the mine intact. It was broken into three pieces, the largest weighing 1,840 pounds.
Yes, pounds.
The nugget was 93 percent pure silver. The price of silver in early 2018 is around $16 per troy ounce. Using some basic math, that would make this nugget worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $500,000 at todays prices. And that is just the bullion value; surely a mineral collector would pay many times that amount in today’s market.
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