“It just proves that a 1,200-dollar machine can find gold,” added Kamp, who said his shop has been selling more detectors recently, likely because interest rates are going up and people are looking for ways to supplement their income. More Happy Hours Sunday - 9:00 PM thru 4:00 AM VIP Bottle and Shot Specials Thursday - 9:00 PM thru 3:00 AM Thirsty Thursday - Buy 1 get 1 w/college ID, 5. The prospector used a Minelab Equinox 800 detector costing 1,200 AUD ($800), Kamp said. Once it was cleaned up, “you could see the gold just come oozing out of the rock everywhere,” he said.

The rock was very dirty so the spotter, who does not want to be named, could not see the gold on the outside of it, and he cracked it into two because he thought there would be a gold nugget inside, said Kamp. The man who found the rock initially only took half of it to be valued and asked Kamp if there could be 10,000 AUD ($6,675) worth of gold in it. Darren Kamp, who valued the rock at $160,000, said it was split into two by the discoverer, who could not see it was oozing with gold all over, because the nugget was very dirty when it was found.

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