The story of the world’s largest gold nugget
Celebrating the Welcome Stranger: When Catherine Deason’s husband told her he had something to show her, she said, “I hope it’s not another unwelcome stranger”. “No – it’s a welcome stranger,” John replied. So goes one of the stories surrounding the discovery of the world’s largest alluvial gold nugget, the Welcome Stranger, 150 years ago.
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