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

[Tim Fisher]

A sledgehammer? I hope he wasn't in its path when it bounced back!

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

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
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