Grandma's gold find....

[bushpig]

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/03/25/07/16/victorian-grandma-finds-gold-nugget

Not sure if this has been posted before.

 

[golddiggerart]

Nice one....gotta love a fairy tale story like that.

 

[Paulmarr]

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/03/25/07/16/victorian-grandma-finds-gold-nugget

 

[nuggetino]

Amazing find. The stuff dreams are made of.

 

[Brutus and me]

wonder if she needs a 50yo toy boy ;-)

 

[Ramjet]

Nice to see big nuggets are still out there. Thanks for sharing.

 

[cairnspom]

Seems to be a bit of discrepancy in values?.....1/2 kilo $80,000 2 kilo $135,000

 

[Ryan1981]

Good on her, man id love to find some clunkers like that

 

[Blewgold]

Happy days!

 

[TheFossickingKid]

The crew on The Project are talking to the lady who found the nugget tonight on channel 10 at 6:30pm

 

[mbasko]

Great story - took up detecting at 73, finds 0.5kg nugget at 81 & now selling it at 83 years of age.
Sounds like a lively, hard working lady. Good luck to her. I hope I'm that spritely at that age but I doubt it - body parts failing me now :lol:

 

[PabloP]

I saw this on another forums and the granny find was 2 years ago, so likely just another advertising beat-up coming on to Easter.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...277064861?nk=faf09fdec73d671c4fb45b43a0f560c5

Great find, but not this year.

Rob.

 

[mbasko]

What are they advertising? Found it using her eyes - no detector company involved. Maybe she will come out & say she has only ever used OPSM glasses? Maybe the Kalgoorlie Tourist corporation is trying to start a rush just prior to the traditional rush of Eastern staters heading west anyway? States in the story "Anne Borg, of Maldon near Bendigo, unearthed the 586.5g nugget just outside Kalgoorlie on her81st birthday in 2013" Nobody is trying to suggest its recent other than forum sceptics that don't bother reading the detail. Doesn't say anything about Minelab or the GPX 7000 (sic) like the other forum poster is trying to allude to
Really can't win with the timing of a big nugget news story. Always something coming up - xmas, Easter, long weekends, festivals etc. etc.

 

[Wally69]

I think it would take me a couple of years to get over the shock of finding something that big.

Mind you, I think all you guys would know as soon as I was back in Internet range. The location.....well you all might need to wait until I had hit it with a GPZ, GPX, SDC, 705, FT1600, ALDI.........and whatever other machine I could get my hands on.

Happy dreams tonight :lol: