Collectors will pay more than its value to have something that big in their collection. Dont melt it!! Put it to auction. Very public auction. Advertise!!
A nugget that size in its natural state is worth so much more than its melt value. I've got a 2 oz nugget that I've worn around my neck for the last 20 years. Not all the time, it's too heavy for that. On a leather thong so it doesn't cut into my neck. It's a beautiful nugget, it would be a crime against nature to melt it down. It actually looks like a mermaid sitting on a rock. A natural work of art. I wish I could share a photo with you. The same with your nugget, a crime against nature. At current melt price your nugget if it were pure would be worth about $69,000.00 US. It's clearly not pure but still worth the $69K or more from the right collector.
I watched this video start to finish, but came back to drop a comment! I just wanted to say how happy I am for you and your family! what a lifetime achievement, something you will never forget to your last day. It's wonderful when hobbiests are rewarded in such grand ways.
Thanks so much for watching @Healthfighthunt this sure was a day I wasn't expecting to ever happen. 7 years of digging and detecting certainly paid off! Go get that detector and enjoy⛏️ Cheers heaps🙂
Yo in gold rush they found a 6oz nugget and it was worth 70k. Large nuggets like that are worth exponentially more than have 30oz of just gold flakes. A 30oz nugget is prob worth 250k maybe even more
@@michellepernula872 Michelle you know nothing who in their right mind would pay 3x the amount. Theyre paying like $350 a gram lol you'd have to be a full on moron. There is nothing special about this nugget... its just bigger than most pieces. It's not a crystalline gold or in a unique shape it's just a clump of gold.. would you pay 3 times it's value for it? If so then you're an idiot
@@michellepernula872 show me proof of it selling for anything over 150k aud and I'll be VERY surprised. I think its overpriced at that.. it is by weight/cost
@@michellepernula872 you could buy the same amount in smaller increments and then just smelt it into a unique shape that looks better than his nugget... like I said there is nothing special for it to fetch anything even close to double its money not even 50% more. Heck not even 20%
Lucky Luke is so beautiful. I would kiss that huge GOLD massive hunk of glory! I hope you, Helena and the boys enjoy the heck out of this financial boost to you household! Congratulations to Andrew too for being there to help you dig it. I love your pictures with the boys revisiting the site. Hope you get that amazing Land Cruiser soon!!!
Great find. A friend of mine found 1/2 kilogram nugget in an area that was worked out. If you get a signal, dig it. My best is 4.5 Oz. Hopefully join your club one day. Great video also.
"Thirty Oz Rock: The Director's Cut, AO Modified non-TV Version", magnificent, Luke and family! 👍⭐ The look on the scales is beautiful, as was the looks by Helena and Dom, and Zaz was off with it! Don't go bolting through the bush with an attack of the zoomies when it happens to you, young fella, or you'll knock a tree over! Lucky Luke's 7th outing with the 6000, I think you've got the hang of it now, mister! With a little perseverance... ha ha ha ha!!!! A new "Welcome" nugget name might be needed sooner than we think, and an on-call blacksmith! Hope this makes the news in a good, kindly and understanding way, we were old enough to see the 1980 media coverage of that big find, that was really fun times and with our red Kmart detectors werr bushwhackers, hoping to experience what we've just wholeheartedly enjoyed seeing, so very much thanks in your sharing this magic experience with us! You're safely grounded well, although the electricity within must still be buzzing, but stay well, you good man. We feel like partying! (Pop Will Eat Itself) "Can you DIG IT!"🎉
17:33 THE most Australian quote I’ve ever heard! Congratulations on this incredible find! This is my first time watching one of your videos. Just subbed and will watch much more!
Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉 If that'd been me finding that beauty, I would've been swearing my head off! And I have the feeling that Helena thought you and Andrew were playing a prank - at first. The look on her face when the reality of the situation sunk in was priceless! With a chunk like that, now you can afford a second hand Datto!! 🤣🤣 Hey, it's Australia! The price of living here sucks! (And for the non-Aussies - it's Datsun)! 😁 Congratulations again Luke! 🎉🇭🇲
I was trying to work out if he was screwing with me. I was running through what pyrite looks like and it’s characteristic till I was like OMG that’s not fake! Unfortunately I think a datto might be out of the price range also, might have to stick to something less ‘Aussie’ 😂
Looking nice.. just wondering, why not panning the material brushed off it? Did you check that hole afterwards with the detector.. might be more down there..
So Happy for you Luke, you well deserve finding THE DREAM OF A LIFETIME , good luck in further hunts, love watching your channel and how you present it 👍☮️❤️Well done fella
👍👌👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic! Congratulations 🎉 Thanks a lot for making explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and especially health to all involved people.
Need to do a water density test to see exactly how much gold is there. First thing you do is dry the specimen completely. Put it in the oven at 180° for a half hour or so. After it's cold of course. Get The weight in grams. Then you'll need to go to a hobby get a beaker that measures milliliters or some type of container that measures milliliters. Then you divide The weight by the amount of water it displaces in milliliters. That will tell you exactly how much gold is there. Without removing all of the excess quartz.. but I'm sure any Goldsmith local to you has the ability to do this.
@@DegenerateY there is zero altering to a water density test. You literally measure water in a container put the specimen in the container measure the water level again, apply mathematically equation, You now know exactly how much gold is in the specimen.
You could clean this up a lot more with muritic (hydrochloric) acid - HCl. Just be sure to handle it safely. It's a real beauty and probabably worth several time its melt value. If you do more cleaning please post update.
Congrats on your find, it's a huge nugget, I have enjoyed the commentary much more than the find of the Gold, if that makes sense to you two? Finding a nugget like this, it's what dreams are made of.
I really appreciate your comment @caringguy32 thankyou so much🙏 So nice to hear you enjoyed watching the big nugget come out of the ground to mate. Andrew is my father in law so I couldnt have imagined having anyone better there to share this moment with. He has also been hunting with me from the very start...7 years ago. So he has seen all of my ups and downs in the metal detecting game. Long days and lots of work pays off is all I can say. Thank you so much again for your comment, I really enjoyed reading it. Be sure to check out more of My and Andrew's adventures on my channel for a laugh. Some great ones there to watch and enjoy🙂👍⛏️
Here in California USA I pan "fly poop" I found a 1 gram nugget amd thought I won the lottery. I can't imagine the feeling of finding that. Please tell me that you went back and cleared a cubic yard around where that was found!
Thankyou so much @lorrainecampbell4641 it's been a long time coming but all those years of digging have paid off! Not just because of the nugget either but all the fun I've enjoyed along the way too😊 Bring on more fun and Lucky Luke nugget number 2 now for future⛏️🙂
Congrats on the monster nugget!!!! Could you soak it in some vinegar to help clean the Quartz??? There is a chance you could lose some weight off of it though... Luv ya's from Kentucky!!!!!
Dont MELT THAT .... ITS WORTH 10X OR MAYBE 20X MORE TO COLLECTOR UR TALKING $100,000 MELT AND 1MILLION TO COLLECTOR IF NOT MORE so don't make the mistake of melting that rock u might as well just take it and put it back in the ground if ur going to melt it
Shut up. Doesent even double in value. You're clueless... its not even that great of a nugget... its probably 120k AUD maximum. That's 20% more than it's weight.. lol 1 million You're so clueless. I don't even reckon he will get 120k for it.. maybe 110
I always wonder how much gold was scraped off that was next to a big nugget. You get fixated on the big piece and leave others in the puddle or wash down the drain in your case. I would want to bring a bucket of dirt home that was next to it. Then look for more when I have nothing to do. It is everybody not just you. Nice Picker.
@@helenamay..2316 I could tell by the look on your face. I laughed so hard when you came out to whoop Luke after he put the animal in your bed. Can't remember what it was.
When you find a nugget like that then do people still pay a price based on the total weight when there is rock in there or do they only estimate the gold they see?
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Collectors will pay more than its value to have something that big in their collection. Dont melt it!! Put it to auction. Very public auction. Advertise!!
What this man said
I don’t think he’ll sell it
I would sell it and pay of my house mortage.
He will find another one, this field must be rich with these!! DONT STOP SEARCHING :D
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Not wrong, especially if the quartz and ironstone are good looking...
@@Skafiskafnjak51lol dreamer
A nugget that size in its natural state is worth so much more than its melt value. I've got a 2 oz nugget that I've worn around my neck for the last 20 years. Not all the time, it's too heavy for that. On a leather thong so it doesn't cut into my neck. It's a beautiful nugget, it would be a crime against nature to melt it down. It actually looks like a mermaid sitting on a rock. A natural work of art. I wish I could share a photo with you.
The same with your nugget, a crime against nature. At current melt price your nugget if it were pure would be worth about $69,000.00 US. It's clearly not pure but still worth the $69K or more from the right collector.
I watched this video start to finish, but came back to drop a comment! I just wanted to say how happy I am for you and your family! what a lifetime achievement, something you will never forget to your last day. It's wonderful when hobbiests are rewarded in such grand ways.
Completely understand why some of my British family emigrated to Australia during the rush. What a magical land. HAPPY DIGGING! More to come ❤
The find of a lifetime, Congratulations from the USA !
First time watching mate.. so sweet..congratulations on a life changing find.. have been thinking about that detector. Sold!
Thanks so much for watching @Healthfighthunt this sure was a day I wasn't expecting to ever happen. 7 years of digging and detecting certainly paid off!
Go get that detector and enjoy⛏️
Cheers heaps🙂
Hope you do a video showing how much of it is actually gold and if you figure how much it's actually worth
Yo in gold rush they found a 6oz nugget and it was worth 70k. Large nuggets like that are worth exponentially more than have 30oz of just gold flakes. A 30oz nugget is prob worth 250k maybe even more
It doesent just double and a half in price you're clueless
It'd be $350k@@Brandanmayhew
@@michellepernula872 Michelle you know nothing who in their right mind would pay 3x the amount. Theyre paying like $350 a gram lol you'd have to be a full on moron. There is nothing special about this nugget... its just bigger than most pieces. It's not a crystalline gold or in a unique shape it's just a clump of gold.. would you pay 3 times it's value for it? If so then you're an idiot
@@michellepernula872 show me proof of it selling for anything over 150k aud and I'll be VERY surprised. I think its overpriced at that.. it is by weight/cost
@@michellepernula872 you could buy the same amount in smaller increments and then just smelt it into a unique shape that looks better than his nugget... like I said there is nothing special for it to fetch anything even close to double its money not even 50% more. Heck not even 20%
I’d be digging there for the rest of my life, Australia is so magical
Absolutely brilliant!! Well done Luke!! No one deserves it more than you!! ❤❤
This is amazing. Compare this to Oak Island with all of their equipment and you with a hand digger!
What a find mate! Well deserved!!
Lucky Luke is so beautiful. I would kiss that huge GOLD massive hunk of glory! I hope you, Helena and the boys enjoy the heck out of this financial boost to you household! Congratulations to Andrew too for being there to help you dig it. I love your pictures with the boys revisiting the site. Hope you get that amazing Land Cruiser soon!!!
Great find. A friend of mine found 1/2 kilogram nugget in an area that was worked out.
If you get a signal, dig it.
My best is 4.5 Oz. Hopefully join your club one day.
Great video also.
Hello from Houston, Texas, and what a find of a lifetime. Cheers and keep digging.
Pearland
What a fantastic find! 😲
I live 15 minutes from an abandoned goldfield and I search for relics there. I really need to change up my settings.👀
Congratulations, lucky man to have that huge chunk of gold and that beautiful family.
Great comment.
"Thirty Oz Rock: The Director's Cut, AO Modified non-TV Version", magnificent, Luke and family! 👍⭐ The look on the scales is beautiful, as was the looks by Helena and Dom, and Zaz was off with it! Don't go bolting through the bush with an attack of the zoomies when it happens to you, young fella, or you'll knock a tree over! Lucky Luke's 7th outing with the 6000, I think you've got the hang of it now, mister! With a little perseverance... ha ha ha ha!!!! A new "Welcome" nugget name might be needed sooner than we think, and an on-call blacksmith! Hope this makes the news in a good, kindly and understanding way, we were old enough to see the 1980 media coverage of that big find, that was really fun times and with our red Kmart detectors werr bushwhackers, hoping to experience what we've just wholeheartedly enjoyed seeing, so very much thanks in your sharing this magic experience with us! You're safely grounded well, although the electricity within must still be buzzing, but stay well, you good man. We feel like partying! (Pop Will Eat Itself) "Can you DIG IT!"🎉
Thats definately a pay off the mortgage nugget. I'm amazed you detector picked it up so deep. Awesome find!!
Well done mate! That is just bloody awesome!!! Look forward to seeing the new Parado.
17:33 THE most Australian quote I’ve ever heard! Congratulations on this incredible find! This is my first time watching one of your videos. Just subbed and will watch much more!
Where's Crocodile Dundee when you need him for a snappy one-liner? Call it "Walkabout Creek Nugget"
Idk, I rather liked "Fackin' Clump"
Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉
If that'd been me finding that beauty, I would've been swearing my head off! And I have the feeling that Helena thought you and Andrew were playing a prank - at first. The look on her face when the reality of the situation sunk in was priceless!
With a chunk like that, now you can afford a second hand Datto!! 🤣🤣
Hey, it's Australia! The price of living here sucks!
(And for the non-Aussies - it's Datsun)! 😁
Congratulations again Luke! 🎉🇭🇲
I was trying to work out if he was screwing with me.
I was running through what pyrite looks like and it’s characteristic till I was like OMG that’s not fake!
Unfortunately I think a datto might be out of the price range also, might have to stick to something less ‘Aussie’ 😂
Looking nice.. just wondering, why not panning the material brushed off it? Did you check that hole afterwards with the detector.. might be more down there..
I have to agree with everyone saying that it is worth more than its melt value.
At the 9/28/24 spot price of $2,674.40 USD, the gold value alone is just under $82,000 USD. That's what you call a good weekend!
GREAT find!!!! CONGRATULATIONS to you ALL!!!!!!!!! CHEERS
So Happy for you Luke, you well deserve finding THE DREAM OF A LIFETIME , good luck in further hunts, love watching your channel and how you present it 👍☮️❤️Well done fella
Keep it as a family heirloom I reckon
Haha .... Waited days to see what you'd found !!! Well done Luke !!! Wowwww !!! Once in a lifetime find !! 🎉
👍👌👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic! Congratulations 🎉 Thanks a lot for making explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and especially health to all involved people.
Congratulations on your epic find. I really liked seeing your family's reaction at the end. Great video!
Need to do a water density test to see exactly how much gold is there. First thing you do is dry the specimen completely. Put it in the oven at 180° for a half hour or so. After it's cold of course. Get The weight in grams. Then you'll need to go to a hobby get a beaker that measures milliliters or some type of container that measures milliliters. Then you divide The weight by the amount of water it displaces in milliliters. That will tell you exactly how much gold is there. Without removing all of the excess quartz.. but I'm sure any Goldsmith local to you has the ability to do this.
don't alter it
@@DegenerateY there is zero altering to a water density test. You literally measure water in a container put the specimen in the container measure the water level again, apply mathematically equation, You now know exactly how much gold is in the specimen.
Best to freeze it then use a cheese grater to sprinkle on cake.
Man... Congratulations. Good work, well done and well deserved I'm sure
From Ohio, Luke I have been watching your videos a little over a year very happy for you and your family god bless my video friend
I love the way he's spending it before he retrieves the thing 😂😂
Congrats brother. I know the feeling of unearthing those size nuggets, it's amazing.😎
I wish I did.
From Pennsylvania... we are happy for you
Brilliant find young Luke. Well deserved. Keep those videos coming. Here comes the Toyota Prada.
Wow what a cracking find ✊I love watching people dig up nuggets 🎉
You could clean this up a lot more with muritic (hydrochloric) acid - HCl. Just be sure to handle it safely.
It's a real beauty and probabably worth several time its melt value. If you do more cleaning please post update.
Good on you. Thanks for sharing
is it not mostly rock? maybe im looking at it wrong but it looks like a chunk of rock and courtz with gold around it
Mom is thinking 🤔 ah new kitchen sounds great! Dan Brent
Wow congratulations! Absolutely overjoyed for you.
Congrats on your find, it's a huge nugget, I have enjoyed the commentary much more than the find of the Gold, if that makes sense to you two? Finding a nugget like this, it's what dreams are made of.
I really appreciate your comment @caringguy32 thankyou so much🙏 So nice to hear you enjoyed watching the big nugget come out of the ground to mate. Andrew is my father in law so I couldnt have imagined having anyone better there to share this moment with. He has also been hunting with me from the very start...7 years ago. So he has seen all of my ups and downs in the metal detecting game.
Long days and lots of work pays off is all I can say.
Thank you so much again for your comment, I really enjoyed reading it. Be sure to check out more of My and Andrew's adventures on my channel for a laugh. Some great ones there to watch and enjoy🙂👍⛏️
Amazing one of a kind find! Congrats!
Here in California USA I pan "fly poop" I found a 1 gram nugget amd thought I won the lottery. I can't imagine the feeling of finding that. Please tell me that you went back and cleared a cubic yard around where that was found!
Great find and good name for it 😊😊
Can’t beat the six.Amazing depth for that machine
Amazing and well deserved. Well done Luke. 👍🏻
Wow- so happy to see your success. 🎉
She named it right off the bat. it's the "Holy Sheet!" nugget. Well done!
Congratulations
You deserve it
Lucky Luke !!!
And your family
Thankyou so much @lorrainecampbell4641 it's been a long time coming but all those years of digging have paid off! Not just because of the nugget either but all the fun I've enjoyed along the way too😊 Bring on more fun and Lucky Luke nugget number 2 now for future⛏️🙂
What a beauty mate 👌
Nice find. Just came across your channel today. Will definitely subscribe and keep an eye on future digs.
You need to get a deep penetrating detector and go over that entire area...could be deeper nuggets that you can't get a signal....amazing find :D
Saw this on the news today, came to say congratulations on finding gold! Never give up
Thrilled to bits for you. What a find. Enjoy!
About 18:00 in the rest is fluff. Congratulations thats an epic find.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FIND
Well done 👏 ✨️
WOW! CONGRATULATIONS!
Which metal detector are you using
A years worth of pay! Awesome, definitely what dreams are made of!
fantastic nugget. Wow!
Well done, brilliant
Oh my gold! Oh my gold! 😂
Congrats on the monster nugget!!!! Could you soak it in some vinegar to help clean the Quartz??? There is a chance you could lose some weight off of it though... Luv ya's from Kentucky!!!!!
What detector do you use? I want one o
Super awesomeness!! Congratulations!! Super exciting!
The algo did something useful for once and recommended me your last video. Great times mate, enjoy the windfall.
Whats the value of something like that? Is the whole thing pure gold or us there other minerals mixed in thats gotta be separated
I can hear the old digger from here turning in his grave lol
yes but maybe the one he found was twice as big .
The "PRADO" is the perfect name👍👌🇦🇺
Super cool! Glückwunsch
Wicked! Awesome! Unbelievable! WTF! Well done , proves it is still out there! Bloody good job.
way to goooooooooooooo!!!!! Congratulations mate
If you found that one then there has to be more. I'd be digging for days out there!
Phucking beautiful 😂. Well played and more good luck coming your way 👌
Can you suggest some models of Metal Detectors for beings please
Amazing. Just amazing.
Dont MELT THAT .... ITS WORTH 10X OR MAYBE 20X MORE TO COLLECTOR UR TALKING $100,000 MELT AND 1MILLION TO COLLECTOR IF NOT MORE so don't make the mistake of melting that rock u might as well just take it and put it back in the ground if ur going to melt it
Shut up. Doesent even double in value. You're clueless... its not even that great of a nugget... its probably 120k AUD maximum. That's 20% more than it's weight.. lol 1 million You're so clueless. I don't even reckon he will get 120k for it.. maybe 110
I always wonder how much gold was scraped off that was next to a big nugget. You get fixated on the big piece and leave others in the puddle or wash down the drain in your case. I would want to bring a bucket of dirt home that was next to it. Then look for more when I have nothing to do. It is everybody not just you. Nice Picker.
Wow dude cracking ....beautiful find.
I have been watching ever since you got sponsored. Really excited for you Luke. I don't think Helena believed you😅
I was definitely trying to work out how he had faked this as a joke!
@@helenamay..2316 I could tell by the look on your face. I laughed so hard when you came out to whoop Luke after he put the animal in your bed. Can't remember what it was.
well done thats a hell of a story
Hope you shared with Andrew..
@@HerbalTee69 ~ said the same thing a while back. Got gold fever & forgot his mate. I know what happened 120 yrs ago.
You must be very religious mate,oh my god religious 😂❤
Hello from florida... thats a dream find. Congrats !
Amazing man! Wow, that’s a find of a lifetime. Every prospectors dream to find something that significant! Well done, I’m happy for you 🙌🥷
When you find a nugget like that then do people still pay a price based on the total weight when there is rock in there or do they only estimate the gold they see?
Made up for ya mate, good to see someone have a win👍🇬🇧
Just watched it again Luke! LOL
U might wanna check the sink bottom on fine gold😅....congratulations 🙂 Greetings from Amsterdam
That is a bloody good looking nugget!!!
Ooooh good on you mate! Amazing!
Holy crap dude, that's awesome, congrats
That was a lovely find, good luck to you.
That's awesome, congrats
🪨⛏️🪙🤒😁💰🤑