36 Kg Quartz Specimen Found Containing aprox 14 kg’s of Gold - What a Find!

Hi All,

Here's a story I thought worth posting. Not from the WA fields but this find gives us all some hope!

A regular customer came into the Miner’s Den Sydney store and brought in an enormous 36 KILOGRAM specimen of quartz the other day. He’d found it with his Minelab GPX 5000 metal detector very close (within 25 feet) of his last major find.
He brought in the quartz because I’d asked him to show me the next chunk before he crushed it to extract any gold. We photographed the quartz and found that it did indeed have a strong metal content inside.
This specimen triggered a strong response from the Minelab GPX 5000 metal detector and even the store’s Minelab Pro-Find 25 Pin Pointer before crushing.

The ingot below is HALF of what came out of the specimen: 7,134 grams. The second ingot was almost the same weight.
The large slab of quartz and a smaller one combined to produce just over 14 kg’s of fine gold.

Worth in excess of $500,000.

This is the second such specimen brought in by the same prospector within four months.





Good Luck and Happy Prospecting

Gold Digger Dave

geez great post dave, get's the mouth watering ay!!
good luck to the prospector who is finding these large speci's.
cheers
jase

On the surface was it Dave, goin by the lichen and moss on it.

Pete

Now thats a nice little button!
Fine, dig every target, I get the hint

Stuff that dreams are made of. Magnificent, I want one

bugger i thought it was a hot rock!!

Thanks Dave. Ya just ruined me whole day!!!

Geez, he could have bought your shop with that.

Robert

Great find and I believe that Pete is right, on the surface.

ouch ..dig everything is the way to go..must have sounded like a VW
hub cap.

groundrush wrote:ouch ..dig everything is the way to go..must have sounded like a VW
hub cap.

Is it better to use a German-made detector then Groundy?

Not the NOKTA I've just shampooed the hubcaps

Might be better to leave things "aziz" hey Groundy?

Robert

PS. We gotta wait till 7/2/2013 now

Looks just like the rock from the movie "The Nugget"
are ya sure he's not some country Victorian road worker who followed the hand of god rainbow to NSW?

Wish my muffins would turned out that good! lol

Awesome, what a fantastic find

Wow, they look very similar to some rock and ingot reported on GDPForum by Nero Design( I think) a couple of months ago?

Wayne.

looks the same because i believe it is the same person....damn lucky guy, i believe he has put in the hard yards though so good luck to him....i also see he has perfected the technique of crushing and melting the gold a bit better this time...last time his ingots still had little bits of quartz showing! shows that NSW is still producing!