Australia, Victoria
Moliagul VIC
Golden Triangle nugget country
Gold ground Documented siteLicence or permit
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Crystals and mineralsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: heart of Victoria's Golden Triangle where the 72 kg Welcome Stranger, the largest gold nugget ever found, was unearthed in 1869; surrounding state forest is open to Miner's Right prospecting
The Welcome Stranger find site is monumented at Moliagul and the Golden Triangle forests remain Australia's most productive nugget-detecting ground
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Old shafts throughout the box-ironbark forestSummer fire danger
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.