A 10.3kg gold nugget has just been dug up by a group of workers, and it is said to be the largest natural, monolithic nugget of gold in the world to date.
According to The Sun newspaper (UK), recently, at the Zarya gold mine, in the Russian Far East, an excavator driver accidentally found a “huge” nugget of gold while digging. .
After the excavator’s bucket touched the “strange object”, the worker stopped the machine and inspected it, discovering a yellow rock. Through inspection, it is natural, solid gold.
The weight of the gold nugget is 10.3kg. Photo: The Sun
Then, this worker weighed the gold piece and its weight reached 10.3kg. According to The Sun daily, this is the world’s largest natural, monolithic gold bar discovered to date.
Russian Environment Minister Nikolay Ischuk said that because the excavator scooped up the gold nugget, the sparkling gold inside was revealed, which led workers to discover the treasure. However, no one expected its weight to be so great.
The current gold price is 40,000 USD/kg
Another natural gold nugget was found earlier. The Sun photo
In 2011, a 7.5kg gold bar was found in Vostok, Russia. According to gold experts, the 10kg ingot in Russia is the largest treasure ever found in the Khabarovsk region.
