Monster Multi-Pounder Nugget found in Northern California!

[Gold Seeker]

Check out this monster nugget found in July in Northern California!!!!

The person that found the nugget is remaining anonymous and also the exact location of the find of course is being keep secret.

The article...


http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_26766424 ... -foothills


The video announcing the find...

http://youtu.be/-Q8e9Mid3Dk?list=UUTXP3 ... m1XBhyFhkg

[russau]

Yep this is what dreams are made of!

[Hoser John]

Now that one would definately get the heart a pumping-sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet find-John

[golden optimist]

Dang! I was wondering when someone would find my nugget. I lost it about 2 years ago. The chain I had it hanging around my neck with broke and I didn't know it.
Leonard

[Hoser John]

and ya wonder why ya have a bad back??? John

[Gold Seeker]

The Butte Nugget has apparently sold for approximately the estimated selling price of $400,000, the actual selling price is not being revealed nor the name of the buyer.

www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Giant-go ... 846149.php


"Just one day after it was unveiled to awed crowds in San Francisco, the whopping 'Butte Nugget’ of gold sold Friday to a “prominent Bay Area collector” for an undisclosed amount of money, according to the company brokering the deal.
“The new owner wants to be secretive, so we can’t name him,” said Don Kagin of Tiburon, the coin dealer who acted as middle-man between the buyer and the prospector who found the 6.07-pound gold lump — the biggest nugget of its kind found in modern times in Gold Rush country.
“Let’s just say it’s a win-win for everybody,” Kagin said.


The seller also asked that the price be kept secret, he said. But he added: “We were asking for $400,000 and it obviously wasn’t far from that.”
David McCarthy, Kagin’s chief numismatist, said he could only reveal that the buyer is “a prominent bay area collector” who specializes in historical items.
“We spoke to six different people who seemed to have legitimate interest and the wherewithal to purchase the item, but he was the first person to make an offer and he had the right price,” McCarthy said.
Interest in the nugget had built to a near frenzy among gold and history buffs since its existence was revealed in The Chronicle on Tuesday, with news inquiries coming in from as far away as Australia. When it went on display Thursday at the prestigious San Francisco Fall Antiques Show, hundreds flocked in for a peek.
The nugget — which will remain on public display until the antiques show ends Sunday, McCarthy said — got its name because the gold hunter who found it in July dug it out of the ground in Butte County. That man also wanted his name and the location of the find to be secret, to avoid scammers and treasure seekers.
“But I can say he’s very pleased with the sale,” McCarthy said."

[MadJack]

All summer I dreamed of finding a 3 pounder shaped just like that one! On could certainly afford to fight the dredge laws with that one.... heh heh

[Ornery Cuss]

I think something here is fishy....

Makes me think of the nugget that was found around "Georgetown" a couple years back actually came out of Australia at some point.

One of those things in life that make ya go HMMMMmmmm


OC

[Gold Seeker]

I think something here is fishy....

Makes me think of the nugget that was found around "Georgetown" a couple years back actually came out of Australia at some point.

One of those things in life that make ya go HMMMMmmmm


OC

I have no doubts that it's the real deal, here are some in-stu photos of the butte nugget as it was being dug and just out of the ground.

[Hoser John]

sell? never-John