Sovereign Hill
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Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has bec
Aerial panorama of Sovereign Hill
The gold diggings
A bakery and other assorted shops on main street.
Welcome Nugget
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The Welcome Nugget was a large gold nugget, weighing 2,217 troy ounces 16 pennyweight., that was discovered by a group of twenty-two Cornish miners at the Red Hill Mining Company site at Bakery Hill i
Sovereign Hill
…appropriate to the era. The second-largest gold nugget in the world was found in Ballarat in the Red Hill Mine which is recreated in Sovereign Hill. The Welcome Nugget weighed 69 kg,(2,200 ounces) and comprised 99.2% pure gold, valued at about 10,596 pounds when found, and worth over US$3 million in gold now, or far…
The "Welcome Nugget" replica at the Harvard Mineralogical Museum, USA.
Replica of Welcome Nugget at Museums Victoria