Gilded blackstone mined using a pickaxe has a 10% chance to drop 2-5 gold nuggets. It is slightly more efficient to mine with a Silk Touch pickaxe. The average drop rate for a Fortune III pickaxe is 8.8, while the drop rate for a Silk Touch pickaxe is a single ingot, or a flat rate of 9. If the pickaxe is enchanted with Fortune, it has a 33.3% chance to multiply the drops by 2, Fortune II has a 25% chance to multiply the drops by 2 or 3 and Fortune III has a 20% chance each to multiply the drops by 2, 3, or 4 for a maximum possible drop of 24 golden nuggets. "He certainly thinks there's more gold out there," Mr Day said.Nether gold ore mined using a pickaxe drops 2-6 gold nuggets. This most recent find comes about a month after a young girl stumbled across a gold nugget worth about $30,000, while walking her dog near Bendigo, while another 1.4kg nugget was found near the West Australian mining city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in May.Īs for the Ballarat-based prospector behind You Wouldn't Believe It, he's bought himself a new metal detector and is back scouring in his secret spot. The largest nugget to be found in the 20th century with a metal detector was the Hand of Faith, which was located in nearby Kingower in 1980 and weighed 24.6kg. The world's largest known nugget, The Welcome Stranger, was found in 1869 at Moliagul, north-west of Melbourne, and weighs a whopping 65.3kg. In the 1850s, Australians and immigrants from countries including the United Kingdom, United States and China flocked to regional Victoria, setting up makeshift camps across the goldfields in search of their fortune. ( ABC Central Victoria: Sian Gard) All just a little bit of history repeating Retired mining engineer Peter McCarthy says there is plenty of gold still be unearthed in regional Victoria.
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