158.78 lb nugget found!

[cabarrusgold]

www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2663839/Gold-nugget-uncovered-Siberia-described-sinister-moon-Friday-13th.html

[indyme2]

Looks like this has Ywevis and Loki beat.

[jpgold]

Anybody speak Russian?

[Gold Seeker]

The nugget only weighted 14.69 lbs, 666.4kg, the 158.78 lb nugget mentioned in comparison was the "Welcome Stranger" which is the world's largest recorded nugget ever found and was found in Australia in 1869.

That being said I wouldn't toss it back just because it only weighted just under 15 pounds!!!LOL

[ywevis]

I bet that company took the nugget from the miner, and didn't give him anything for finding it.

[shadow]

Jun 21, 2014 23:14:27 GMT -5 ywevis said:

I bet that company took the nugget from the miner, and didn't give him anything for finding it.

In Russia reward is life.

That miner is probably a local legend around there now anyways

[cabarrusgold]

Jun 21, 2014 21:32:08 GMT -5 Gold Seeker said:

The nugget only weighted 14.69 lbs, 666.4kg, the 158.78 lb nugget mentioned in comparison was the "Welcome Stranger" which is the world's largest recorded nugget ever found and was found in Australia in 1869.

That being said I wouldn't toss it back just because it only weighted just under 15 pounds!!!LOL

Thanks for clearing that up. In my haste to post this, I posted the other nugget's weight. Found in a tailings pile though? Little fish... toss it back.

[Gold Seeker]

I like what the director of the mine said....."‘But first we will have to check the dropouts more carefully - to see what else the clever equipment threw away." LOL