Wouldn't it be nice to find this in your garden -- maybe next to the potatoes

RogerB

"Australian finds A$100,000 gold nugget using metal detector"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48331769

[Copyright FINDERS KEEPERS GOLD PROSPECTING]

Plus - it's not rusty !

ctf_error_coins

A nugget that size would make my gold metal detector go crazy, wow!

asheland

That's insane!

CaptHenway

Shazam!

AUandAG

Happens on a daily basis in Australia. On mother's day a family out for a walk, with their dogs, found a 20 ounce laying on top of the ground, no detector needed. A 79 oz nugget was unearthed in Victoria recently as well. Australia is home to the largest nuggets ever found. Two main gold fields, Western Australia desert and Victoria (far south).

Fun to read about them.

bob
http://m.theweek.com/speedreads/841749/dog-named-lucky-helped-family-find-24000-gold-nugget

Namvet69

Man that is one nice potato. I think it's a Yukon gold! Peace Roy

Tibor

Let's get to the really questions, is it NT or AT. Will it "bean" at CAC?

Smudge

Couldn't be my garden, doesn't look like a weed. Edit to add the finder needs to shut up. MD finds are best kept to one's self.

RogerB

@Namvet69 said:
Man that is one nice potato. I think it's a Yukon gold! Peace Roy

arghhh....nice pun, Spud !

Hemispherical

@RogerB said:
"Australian finds A$100,000 gold nugget using metal detector"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48331769

[Copyright FINDERS KEEPERS GOLD PROSPECTING]

Plus - it's not rusty !

1.4kg nugget. Over three pounds!

http://www.aussietowns.com.au/town/kalgoorlie-wa

DIMEMAN

How in the world does that happen?

ctf_error_coins

Hemispherical

@ErrorsOnCoins said:

That’d be my luck (a spec of gold), or worse, a gust of wind blows by then it’d be my luck.

TradesWithChops

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray
It might come true (run run ooo)
Baby, then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could…

Hemispherical

@TradesWithChops said:
Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray
It might come true (run run ooo)
Baby, then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nZBKFoeDKJo

rte592

@ErrorsOnCoins said:

I'd like to see the hole that the large nugget came from.

I've bought more then I've gotten from the wild.

AUandAG

Saw this thread, so thought I'd drive to California and buy a lotto ticket...maybe I'd get lucky like these fine folks. But got caught in a creeping slow backup and took two hours just to get halfway to California (usual round trip is two hours to get tickets). Took the nearest exit and came home....no lotto for me today!

bob

ctf_error_coins

@rte592 said:

I'd like to see the hole that the large nugget came from.

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Within a mile of those buckets

WildIdea

@ErrorsOnCoins said:

This had me rolling, thanks, so clever, I needed that!

messydesk

And he probably had to lure a crocodile away with a giant spider so he had time to dig it up and get out of Dodge. After all, in Australia, even the gold will kill you if you're not careful.

FredWeinberg

I wouldn't mind finding something that starts with the
first three letters in my garden.

Timbuk3

Wow, "sweet" !!!

ricko

Finding a gold nugget like that could be fatal to someone with a weak heart.... WOW... can you imagine the adrenaline rush?? I have found small nuggets... 6 and 7 gram size... and I was super excited....Finding that monster would call for a three day celebration... Cheers, RickO

RogerB

RE: ErrorsOnCoins' hand.
Just for fun here are some of my thoughts about the hand in the photo. (His photo is, to me, more fun than the original.)

1. Different hand and background that original, but good copy of general position.
2. Hand is from a 45-55 yr old male.
3. Approximately 25 kg overweight.
4. Has hypertension but under treatment.
5. Moderate edema possibly due to congestive heart failure, kidney disease. (Cut out the salt ASAP).
6. Old breaks to index (middle phalanx) and little finger improperly set creating inward curvature.
7. Nails are cut too short and might create irritation of the hyponychinum and exposure of the distal sterile matrix. (End of finger tip will be sensitive and possibly sore.)

Now, about the 5 gram gold nugget....

ctf_error_coins

Thanks, Dr. Dang, I love salt.

Hard times on my hands, Rock climbing in my youth to early adulthood. Decades of computer photoshopping is really tough on the hands. Kayak fishing really did its job on my hands. Gardening and gold mining tough as well.

Hands do go numb from time to time but no pain really. Hard hand exercises seem to help.

RogerB

Numbness can be from pressure on the median nerve. Extensive computer use suggests that as a possible cause. A $6 wrist brace will usually help.

Now -- really --- lay off the salt. Your BP will decline and so will the edema. If finger tips get sore, wash thoroughly and disinfect with alcohol, then rub in a little petroleum jelly over night. Keep nails at about 2mm. to avoid irritation. (Products containing glycerin, cetearyl alcohol, and stearic acid in a water solution, might also be helpful for hand skin irritation (fishing, etc.) but avoid a bunch of additives that only make it look nice or enhance fragrance.)

Just some ideas - not medical advice.

3keepSECRETif2rDEAD

...if I had to be stoned-to-death, Old-T style...I would hope for that baby to be the first stone cast; incoming...dead ringer...game over...instead, I get to glue myself to Italian leather and smoke my way through Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Freedom isn’t Free, but as long as I have it, I’m riding it till the wheels fall off baby!

Stuart

Here’s another photo of the same recent Australian 1.4KG (45 OzT) Gold Nugget Discovery

Web Link 👉 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-22/large-gold-nugget-found-near-kalgoorlie-as-gold-price-soars/11135228

RogerB

Great necklace -- for Dolly Parton

Downtown1974

That is just incredible! I can’t get eggplant to grow never mind finding gold!
Love The Beach Boys reference too. Pet Sounds was ahead of its time.

BryceM

Love the medical advice.

Hands going numb = carpal tunnel syndrome 95% of the time. Surgery for this is not such a bad recovery and has a very high success rate. Splints are OK for temporary treatment. Untreated for long enough, permanent nerve damage can happen.

Oh, the big yellow rock is pretty cool too!

Imagine, a commercial gold mine needs to recover that every day just to pay expenses. Really good quality ore contains 10 grams of gold per ton of material.

RogerB

RE: "Love the medical advice. "

Bug him to lay off the salt, too !

Kkathyl

@ErrorsOnCoins said:

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With FDI unopened OMP

RogerB

"Transparent zinc" cent....Based on Mr. Scott's "transparent aluminum" formula for housing whales.

Coinscratch

@RogerB said:
RE: ErrorsOnCoins' hand.
Just for fun here are some of my thoughts about the hand in the photo. (His photo is, to me, more fun than the original.)

1. Different hand and background that original, but good copy of general position.
2. Hand is from a 45-55 yr old male.
3. Approximately 25 kg overweight.
4. Has hypertension but under treatment.
5. Moderate edema possibly due to congestive heart failure, kidney disease. (Cut out the salt ASAP).
6. Old breaks to index (middle phalanx) and little finger improperly set creating inward curvature.
7. Nails are cut too short and might create irritation of the hyponychinum and exposure of the distal sterile matrix. (End of finger tip will be sensitive and possibly sore.)

Now, about the 5 gram gold nugget....

But, the life line is long

7Jaguars

LOL
Quite the medical lessons going on - long-standing CTS may permanently the nerve and surgical yield poor when it has fibrosed

johnny9434

nice payday

ARCO

@RogerB said:
RE: ErrorsOnCoins' hand.
Just for fun here are some of my thoughts about the hand in the photo. (His photo is, to me, more fun than the original.)

1. Different hand and background that original, but good copy of general position.
2. Hand is from a 45-55 yr old male.
3. Approximately 25 kg overweight.
4. Has hypertension but under treatment.
5. Moderate edema possibly due to congestive heart failure, kidney disease. (Cut out the salt ASAP).
6. Old breaks to index (middle phalanx) and little finger improperly set creating inward curvature.
7. Nails are cut too short and might create irritation of the hyponychinum and exposure of the distal sterile matrix. (End of finger tip will be sensitive and possibly sore.)

Now, about the 5 gram gold nugget....

How do you know it isn't just the sheer weight of that gold chunk causing all the blood to stop flowing in his hand? Then again, if it is a metal detecting enthusiast, you are probably spot on without even having to look at any pictures.

RogerB

Doubt that 5 gram "monster" would have much compressive effect...

gonzer

@BryceM said:
Love the medical advice.

Hands going numb = carpal tunnel syndrome 95% of the time. Surgery for this is not such a bad recovery and has a very high success rate. Splints are OK for temporary treatment. Untreated for long enough, permanent nerve damage can happen.

Reynaud's Disease is no fun either

BryceM

Nope. Reynaud's sucks. Treatable.....ish, but no cure.

@RogerB , I can't, in good conscience, recommend to anyone that they lay off the salt when I just polished off my third slice of Domino's pizza.

RogerB

3rd slice? It's only 5:15 EDT.

Let's see .... electrolyte panel, glucose -- oh, and the new "pepperoni panel"...too.

ctf_error_coins

off to the California recreational dispensary for the skunky natural hypertension medicine

Kkathyl

@CoinscratchFever said:

@RogerB said:
RE: ErrorsOnCoins' hand.
Just for fun here are some of my thoughts about the hand in the photo. (His photo is, to me, more fun than the original.)

1. Different hand and background that original, but good copy of general position.
2. Hand is from a 45-55 yr old male.
3. Approximately 25 kg overweight.
4. Has hypertension but under treatment.
5. Moderate edema possibly due to congestive heart failure, kidney disease. (Cut out the salt ASAP).
6. Old breaks to index (middle phalanx) and little finger improperly set creating inward curvature.
7. Nails are cut too short and might create irritation of the hyponychinum and exposure of the distal sterile matrix. (End of finger tip will be sensitive and possibly sore.)

Now, about the 5 gram gold nugget....

But, the life line is long

Close but female 😀

logger7

A group of friends and I just booked seats on a plane, destination Australia! Gold exploration sure beats lottery odds!!!

Hemispherical

Since we’re in Australia.

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“'It could change everything': coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa”

“Experts believe they may have found a Kilwa coin that could change what we know about the history of global trade”

“Hermes is part of the Past Masters, a group of historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, numismatists (coin experts), geochronologists and other experts who investigate historical anomalies. In the past six years they have mounted seven expeditions off the coast of northern Australia, finding previously undiscovered rock art, shipwrecks, stone tools, human remains and the Holy Grail, the Kilwa coin.”

From left: A Kilwa coin bought online and a suspected Kilwa coin, from Africa pre-1400AD, found on the Wessel Islands in the Northern Territory.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/12/it-could-change-everything-coin-found-off-northern-australia-may-be-from-pre-1400-africa

COINS MAKE CENTS

na i would have to pass. i think i see a scratch and a rim ding