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« on: January 02, 2011, 08:45:00 pm »
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"Last weekend the Western Australian gold prospectors assembled for their annual meeting at the pub in Ora Banda, a hamlet in the Western Australian outback. At the end of the meeting a nugget buyer from Perth, a guy named Andy Comas, made quite an interesting announcement: he recently acquired and sold a nugget weighing 23.26 kilograms (51.17 pounds), making it one of the world?s largest gold nugget in existence. When Andy showed a picture of the monster the bar went dead quiet. People just couldn?t take their eyes of it. This was of course what every prospector dreams of and keeps him going: the bloody big one!"

"The nugget had been found a couple of weeks ago with a metal detector somewhere in the goldfields around here. Through various tests it had been established that the thing has a 92% purity. With today?s gold price of around 40 US Dollars a gram, the gold value of this baby would be around $860,000 dollars. But of course, nuggets of that rarity go for two, three times the gold value."




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« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2011, 09:01:40 pm »
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Looks like a door stop at GD's house.

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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2011, 09:08:26 pm »
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Looks like a door stop at GD's house.


 Thats some door stop.

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« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2011, 12:31:45 am »
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I think I had one like that...............I just can't remember where I put it.

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« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2011, 12:45:18 am »
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  Grin    Ya think it was  Western Australia ??  Grin

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« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2011, 04:47:35 am »
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I don't understand how they work out the value of gold is there a differant amount of onces per pound because my maths don't match, i know that there are 240 penny wt per pound and 31.106???grams per oz and now i've had a melt down 51.17lbs=818.72oz@$1421.60 per oz=$1.163,892

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« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2011, 06:47:55 am »
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Gold is measured in Troy ounces.

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« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2011, 11:06:00 am »
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what a find!!!!!

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Holy smokes nice bit of gold Smiley

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