![]() The finders had been among the first to introduce steam-driven machinery into the field at Ballarat and had looked first at nearby Creswick with no luck. ![]() Eclipsed by the discovery of the larger Welcome Stranger eleven years later in 1869 (also in Victoria), it remains the second largest gold nugget ever found. It was assayed by William Birkmyre of the Port Phillip Gold Company and given its name by finder Richard Jeffery. Shaped roughly like a horse's head, it measured around 49 cm (19 in) long by 15 cm (5.9 in) wide and 15 cm (5.9 in) high, and had a roughly indented surface. It was located in the roof of a tunnel 55 metres (180 feet) underground. (68.98 kg), that was discovered by a group of twenty-two Cornish miners at the Red Hill Mining Company site at Bakery Hill (near the present intersection of Mair and Humffray Street) in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, on 9 June 1858. The Welcome Nugget is a large gold nugget, weighing 2,217 troy ounces 16 pennyweight. The "Welcome Nugget" replica at the Harvard Mineralogical Museum, USA.
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