[Rockhounds] Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It's Gold. It Turned Out to Be Far More Valuable

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near
Melbourne, Australia.

Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary –
a very heavy, reddish rock resting in some yellow clay.

He took it home and tried everything to open it, sure that there was a gold
nugget inside the rock - after all, Maryborough is in the Goldfields
region, where the Australian gold rush peaked in the 19th century.

To crack open his find, Hole tried a rock saw, an angle grinder, a drill,
even putting the thing in acid, but not even a sledgehammer could make a
crack. That's because what he was trying so hard to open was no gold
nugget. As he found out years later, it was a rare meteorite.

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-kept-this-rock-for-years-thinking-it-s-gold-turns-out-it-s-a-spectacular-meteorite