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This is the year nineteen hundred and two

When a miner named Richard Oates

He was dying alone in a shelter near Moliagul, Victoria, Australia

he was alone

no friends and family member near him

He was breathing his last breath and thinking, is he the man

Who discovered the world's largest piece of gold?

Today we will tell you about the discovery of the world's largest gold piece

The discovery of which created such a record in the history of mining

Which no one has been able to break till date

His discovery took the whole world by surprise

How much did this gold piece weigh?

When did you get it?

How did it get?

And what people found

And what happened to them later

We will know all this today in our video

This was 155 year ago in south Australia, Victoria

There was a small town called Moliagul,

the moliagul is 198 km away from Melbourne

and was known for prospecting for gold

February 5 1869, winter was almost over

The Weather Was dry

And laborers were digging in different places in search of gold

A workman named John Deason was climbing down the hillside to dig a gold mine.

His foot hit something hard and he fell

With them behind, Richard realizes that the object Mr John has tripped over is probably a piece of iron.

But on closer inspection, he realized that it was something very bright

Both have tried to pull it out together

Both knew that what they were trying to extract was a piece of gold

But they both did not know that they were trying to extract the world's largest piece of gold from the ground

After a lot of effort, the piece came to him completely

Then everyone was very surprised

This piece of gold was so big that three to four people together lifted it

Now both of them knew that they had a huge treasure in their hands

But stay

Mountains of surprises are yet to be broken

Both of them reached the Bank of Victoria with the gold piece to sell

The problem there was that the bank did not have a weighing machine big enough to weigh it

It was decided to cut the gold piece into three parts and weigh it

When it was weighed, it was found to be the world's largest gold piece ever discovered

Its weight is 72 kg

Ladies and gentlemen, at that time, in 1869, this gold piece was sold to the Bank of Victoria for £9,500.

and both divide money half

The gold piece was then put on display for several months

people come to see the gold nugget

they keep the name of this gold nugget is Welcome Strange

after few month bank of Victoria sold this gold nugget to the British company

flyn and co at 10500 british pound and transported to the England

There it was once exhibited in Crystal Palace London

then they sold to the gold dealers

These dealers melted down this rare piece of gold and used it in jewellery

Both miners were from Britain who discovered this gold nugget

It is important to know who these people were

John Deason is an experienced miner who has been in the mining industry for a long time

But Richard Oates was totally new into mining

Interestingly, the two miners met each other by chance before finding the gold nugget

They decided to work together, but they often quarreled with each other over small matters.

Perhaps it was for this reason, that the two never worked together after the sale of Welcome Strange

John Deason continued to work in the mining industry after selling the gold

and leased various gold mines

after that he got retirement from this field

and move to the Melbourne and invest his money in property and taking interest in politics

then he died in 1915

While Richard's fate was more painful

He also invested the proceeds in various mining ventures

But because he was a newcomer in the Gold field

Therefore, most of his projects failed due to lack of experience

he became Bank corrupt, He almost lost his fortune after a serious bank corrupt.

Eventually he decided to go back to working as a laborer in other mines

But still he was constantly worried

And finally died in a Shelter in the same area of Moliagul

That nugget is undoubtedly the largest gold nugget discovery of the Welcome Strange to date

This gold piece weighing 72 kg is still exhibited in various exhibitions

But it is not original, it is duplicate

Because the original Welcome Strange was cut in three on the very first day at weigh-in

But this is a record that no one has been able to break till date

Undoubtedly, the credit for the discovery of this large gold piece goes to these two mines John Deason and Richard Oates.

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