The Australian had his stone appraised in a specialist shop in Geelong near Melbourne. Darren Kamp, the expert assessing the find, hallucinated when he saw the size of the rock. “I was just stunned… This is a once in a lifetime find,” he told the BBC. It must be said that he is not used to seeing this. Typically, customers bring back pyrite or other stones that look like gold but aren’t.
“But he pulled out this pebble and dropped it in my hand and said, ‘You think there’s 10,000 Australian dollars in there?'” he says. After estimating the stone at 4.6kg, Darren Kamp asserts that it contained around 2.6kg of gold, which is equivalent to AUD 240,000. 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! ‘ he explained.
The area where the rock was found was well known to prospectors in the 19th century and the gold rush continues to draw adventure seekers to Australia today. To this day, the country is considered one of the largest gold reserves in the world. Many of the world’s largest nuggets have been discovered in Australia, although they are extremely rare.