But none is as big or heavy as those just introduce yourself. There are many other unmelted specimens and exception as the « Hand of Faith » (hand of faith) below. We can go see Banco Central Museum, museum owned by the Brazilian central bank that manages the Brazilian gold stocks which include the nugget in question. Unlike large nuggets 19th century, they saw an interest in keeping the nugget as it is. It bears the name « Canaã Nugget » or « Pepita Canaa » and weighs almost 61 Kg, 52 Kg of fine gold.
It was discovered in Brazil in the state of Pará, at the Serra Pelada mine in 1983, this is also where many others were found large nuggets. The biggest nugget that still exists to this day is also the third largest nugget ever.
It was discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates in 1869 in the state of Victoria in Australia at least ten centimeters from the surface! The fact remains today that two replicas, one belonging to the City Museum of Melbourne and the other in descending from John Deason, a monument at the place of its discovery, and a commemorative statue. It weighed 109.6 kg out of earth, to 78 Kg (including 72 gold end) once melted and freed of impurities. Maybe there’s another monster nugget lurking in the ground that produced the Yukon’s largest chunk of gold.We must distinguish the nuggets found but melted (for obvious reasons transportability) nuggets that still exist in their original form.įirst, the largest gold nugget ever found was the so-called « Welcome Stranger », it measured about 61 cm by 31. Nothing remains today except some old stove parts and the ditch which Mattheisen and Coffin may have dug and used to flume water to their workings. Strangely Joe has owned claim Number 9 on Dominion Creek since 1990 and thinks that he may have located the site of the cabin where a photo of the huge nugget was taken. The nugget produced fifty ounces of pure gold worth fifty thousand dollars today. Found in 1983 by the Serra Pelada Mine in the State of Para, Brazil, this piece of gold is currently ranked as world’s largest surviving gold nugget. Eisenhower found victims of Nazi concentration camps, he anticipated that in the future there would be attempts to deny what happened. There was no mention of this nugget in government records, until it was melted down in Seattle in 1910 after Mattheisen and his family left the Klondike. Joe is sure that if the royalty had been paid on this 126-ounce nugget, it would have been mentioned in Yukon or Klondike history records. The Mounties searched departing Klondike miners on the trains to Skagway and confiscated their gold if the royalty had not been paid on it. Many refused to pay and instead smuggled their gold out of the territory. If they mined more than five hundred dollars, the royalty rose to 15%.Īmericans in the Klondike didn’t like the rule. Finally he decided it was likely because, at the turn of the century, a Yukon miner who found less than five hundred dollars worth of gold a year, was only required to pay the government a 10% royalty. Still curious, Joe Yanisiw wondered why information about the nugget was so hard to find. Coffin found it on their claim number 9 above discovery on Dominion Creek in 1904. The largest gold nugget ever discovered in history was the Welcome Stranger nugget which weighed an astonishing 173 pounds. įred Mattheisen, of Seattle Washington and his partner F.F. The miners reportedly broke it up underground. Then on a trip to Fairbanks in 2004, he had some time on his hands and went to the Rasmussen library at the University and there it was.information and a photo of the largest Yukon Nugget. A few months after Holtermanns nugget was found an even larger specimen, estimated to contain 155kg of gold was recorded in the Star of Hopes day book. Joe said that through his many years as a prospector and miner, he was surprised that he was not able to locate even a mention of this large nugget anywhere in Klondike Gold Rush historical records. Being the curious sort, Joe began a search to find out what claim the gold came from and who found it. In 1964, miner Joe Yanisiw saw a photo of a huge chunk of Klondike gold that had been found on Dominion Creek in 1904. So then imagine finding not just the gold, but the largest nugget in Klondike history.
What a great line about gold mining especially when it comes not from a miner, but a poet. Ain’t just the gold that I’m wanting, so much as just finding the gold.
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