The story of the world’s largest gold nugget

Updated February 1 2019 - 5:20pm, first published 4:43pm
The story of the world’s largest gold nugget
The story of the world’s largest gold nugget

Celebrating the Welcome Stranger: When Catherine Deason’s husband told her he had something to show her, she said, “I hope it’s not another unwelcome stranger”. “No – it’s a welcome stranger,” John replied. So goes one of the stories surrounding the discovery of the world’s largest alluvial gold nugget, the Welcome Stranger, 150 years ago.

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