![]() He said ‘Oh, that’s only half the rock, I’ve got the other half at home,’” Mr Kamp, who started out prospecting for gold more than 40 years ago, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). “He said, ‘I’ve got something to show you.’ He pulled the rock out of his backpack and as he dropped it in my hand, he said, ‘Do you think there’s A$10,000 worth in there?’,” said Darren Kamp, from Lucky Strike Gold in the city of Geelong. The prospector, who wishes to remain anonymous, took the specimen to a gold dealer who said his jaw dropped when he first saw it, describing the chunk of rock as a once in a lifetime find. The discovery comes more than 150 years after the region was the epicentre of a gold rush that drew in hundreds of thousands of hopeful prospectors and helped spur Australia’s economic development. It contained 83 ounces - or about 2.6kg - of gold which is worth A$240,000. The man, who was equipped with a cheap metal detector, found the 4.6kg lump while prospecting for gold in an area known as “the Golden Triangle” between the towns of Bendigo and Ballarat. ![]() An Australian prospector has found £130,000 worth of gold in a huge chunk of quartz that he dug out of the ground in the state of Victoria.
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