Miners Go Searching For Gold, End Up Digging Out Huge Gold Nugget

13. This Nugget Was Huge!

“‘What do you think, Dick? Is it worth $6,500?’ ‘Oh,’ [Oates] said, ‘more like $2,600.’” – wrote Deason in his report back in 1905. The problem with this gold nugget was that it was huge! The chunk of metal had to be carried in a cart to Deason’s shack.