The largest gold nugget ever found weighed as much as an adult man. When prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates discovered the massive chunk of gold in Australia, they went from being struggling working men to astonishingly wealthy overnight.
From 1851, lured by vast newfound gold fields in Western Australia, hundreds of thousands of men migrated to the colony for what became Australia’s gold rush. But while many gold-seekers found just modest quantities of the noble metal, two humble tin miners were to get the biggest break of their lives—the biggest of all time.
