An amateur prospector found BRL 820 thousand in gold. The stone was found in the Golden Triangle region by a young man from Victoria, Australia. The rock weighed 4.6 kg in total, with more than half of its weight being pure gold. Continue reading the article and stay on top of this unusual situation.
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A man who preferred to hide his identity found a gold stone through the Minelab Equinox 800 gold detector, sold on websites outside Brazil for just R$ 4 thousand. The stone found by the boy weighed a total of 4.6 kg, 2.7 kg of which was gold.
Upon finding it, the boy took the rock to Lucky Strike Gold, a gold prospecting store with the aim of discovering the value of the stone found. Due to the dirt on the rock, the boy was unable to see the gold in the rock and, therefore, decided to break the rock in half, believing that there would be a nugget inside it.
However, as the owner of Lucky Strike Gold told CNN, when the stone was cleaned, you could see gold coming out all over the stone.
In an interview with CNN, the owner of the store says that when he received the rock he was incredulous with what he was seeing, after all, according to he, in 43 years in the business of prospecting for gold, he never found a stone that had that size with that amount of gold. He also adds that many people arrive at the store with stones believing it to be gold, but, in fact, it is not and that rock came out gold everywhere.
The region where the rock was found is quite famous for having a lot of gold, which attracts prospectors from different prospecting processes.
Due to this fact, stores like Lucky Strike Gold have significantly increased sales of metal detectors, after all, the search for gold and mining in general become a great opportunity for these people to get another source of income. income.
The owner of the store says that looking for gold is really worth it, as the detector costs only R$4,000. With two pebbles, you suddenly have $200 in your hand.
