[Thistooshallpass9]

I offer this replacement title: “Chinese farmer regrets telling anyone about gold nugget”

[mikrofon]

Chinese farmer finds 7.85kg gold nugget worth $250,000 on the ground

Is it worth less in space where it's weightless ;?

[Junk Silver]

“Next thing you know old Berek’s a millionaire -
His kinfolk said, “Hey Sawat move away from there”
They said Shanghai is the place you oughta go
So he packed up the Rickshaw and they moved to HongQaio.”

[The KG9 Kid]

"Aww, what the frick..."

[Flag_This]

"But the report did not say whether the herder would be able to keep his new-found riches. ..."

Short answer: "no."

[muir_redwoods]

If I found it only my wife would ever know. I will never understand people who need to talk about such finds.

[Kay Ludlow]

Am I the only one who looks at the picture and thinks it's a fake? My husband watches all those Alaska shows and Gold Mining shows, and I've been to the Smithsonian - LOL!

And yet, I can't help but see the picture in this article as spray painted sandstone. Nuggets are generally alluvial gold, meaning they came together and formed in glacier formations. That's why when you pan for gold, even small nuggets are already shiny and smooth. The picture in the article isn't smooth at all - I have chunks of sandstone (with small shiny crystals or bits of pyrite in it) that would look just like that if I took a can of Krylon gold spray paint to it.

Just sayin’...