The Australian went to have his rock appraised in a specialist shop in Geelong, near Melbourne. Darren Kamp, the expert who evaluated the find, hallucinated seeing the size of the rock. “I was just stunned… This is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery,” he told the BBC. It must be said that he is not used to seeing that. Usually, customers bring back pyrite or other rocks that look like gold but aren’t.
“But he pulled out this pebble and dropping it in my hand he said, ‘Do you think there’s 10,000 Australian dollars in it?’” he says. After estimating the rock at 4.6 kg, Darren Kamp assures him that it contained around 2.6 kg of gold, the equivalent of 240,000 Australian dollars (around 150,000 euros). He decided to buy it back from him.
“My wife will be happy! »
A nice sum for this amateur gold digger, who will spend this money on his family. “My wife will be happy! “, did he declare.
The area where the rock was found is well known to gold seekers in the 1800s. As then, the gold rush continues to attract the more adventurous to Australia. To date, the country is considered one of the largest gold reserves in the world. Many of the largest nuggets in the world have been discovered in Australia, although it remains extremely rare.