[Rockhounds] Man Keeps a Rock For Years Hoping It's Gold. It Turns 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 break open his find, Hole tried a rock saw, an angle grinder, a drill,
even dousing the thing in acid. However, 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 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHdMmDXsGQc>,
it was a rare meteorite.

https://www.sciencealert.com/man-keeps-a-rock-for-years-hoping-its-gold-it-turns-out-to-be-far-more-valuable