4 kg gold block dug up with metal detector

An Australian man was extremely surprised when he discovered a 4 kg gold block worth over 190,000 USD using a metal detector.

A 4 kg gold block on the scale. Photo: Minelab.com.

According to Mirror, an anonymous man, while searching for metal at an old gold mine in Golden Triangle, Victoria, Australia on August 19, discovered a 4 kg solid gold nugget at a depth of 0.3 m below ground.

He named the nugget "Friday's Joy", then immediately wrapped it in foil and hid it in the oven. The same person had dug up another smaller nugget, shaped like a tennis ball, weighing 255g, 0.6m below the ground the day before.

"At first I thought it was scrap, maybe an old horseshoe. When I started peeling off the clay and digging deeper, I couldn't believe my eyes. I had just dug up a huge gold nugget, a once-in-a-lifetime find. I absolutely couldn't believe that a gold nugget this big still existed," Minelab.com quoted the man as saying.

The gold is being stored in a bank vault while a replica is being made for auction. After his once-in-a-lifetime find, the man plans to buy a truck and travel around Australia, prospecting for gold and sightseeing.

According to VNE