Appraiser Darren Kamp dropped his jaw when the man from Geelong outside Melbourne turned up with the stone, he tells ABC News.
— He said ‘I have something to show you’. He took the stone from his backpack and placed it in my hand. He said ‘do you think there’s $10,000 worth in there?’
The man who made the find wants to remain anonymous. He had found the stone in the gold fields in the state of Victoria where the gold rush was strong in the 19th century.
When he first came in to Darren Kamp, he only had half the stone with him, the rest he brought in later. Kamp appraised the find and then bought it.
According to the Geological Survey authority, there may be millions of kilograms of gold in the so-called gold fields in Victoria, which lie like a triangle between the towns of Bendigo, Ballarat and St. Arnaud. Many of the world’s largest gold nuggets have been found in Australia.