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The rare discovery was made in Australia's "Golden Triangle."

Lucky Strike Gold(LONDON) -- An Australian man has quite literally struck gold. He discovered a rare gold nugget worth about 240,000 Australian dollars, or about $160,000, while scanning Victoria’s “Golden Triangle” with his metal detector. The man, who did not wish to be named, was scanning the area between Ballart, Bendigo and St. Arnaud, which was popular during Victoria’s famous gold rush in the 1850s, when his Minelab Equinox 800 metal detector started to beep. It was there that he unearthed a 4.6 kg rock, which contained 2.6 kg of gold. Inquisitive about the rock’s worth, the m...