Kerang man unearths $135,000 gold nugget

So Mr Brown went prospecting near Wedderburn in an area he had been before. He started moving across it with his detector when the machine went off loudly over a particular spot. Only six inches beneath the surface, Mr Brown hit the top of a gold nugget.

He doubted himself for a moment, thinking it was a "big molten blob of copper".

"I thought bugger me, it is, it's bloody gold," Mr Brown said. "I just dug it up, 87 ounces of the good stuff."

Mr Brown said the nugget was worth about $135,000 but he hopes a private collector will offer more. 

"Sometimes they do say gold is worth twice its weight in gold if it's a really nice looking nugget," he said.

Mr Brown finds his nugget quite attractive and says it has "good grooves and moves".

Asked what he would do with the money after selling the nugget, Mr Brown said he would take his four daughters and wife out for dinner.

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