The specimen was found with a budget metal detector and weighed in at 4.6kg.
An Australian man armed with a budget metal detector has hit the jackpot, finding a 4.6kg rock containing gold worth A$240,000 .
Darren Kamp, who valued and bought the specimen, said it is the biggest he's seen in his 43-year career.Mr Kamp hadn't thought too much of it when a man wearing a large backpack walked into his prospecting store in Geelong, about an hour south-west of Melbourne. Normally people come in with fools gold or other rocks that look like gold, Mr Kamp says.
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