The Welcome Stranger is an alluvial gold nugget which is the biggest ever discovered, and was unearthed by Cornish miners John Deason and Richard Oates on 5 February 1869 in Moliagul, 9 miles north-west of Dunolly in Victoria, Australia.

Jan 26, 2019 · Over the years many myths have been told about how the world’s biggest alluvial gold nugget, the Welcome Stranger, was found in 1869, in central Victoria. One was that its finders, Cornish miners John Deason and Richard Oates, tripped on it while staggering home from the pub to their bush shacks at Moliagul, 60km west of Bendigo.

Feb 5, 2019 · John Deason was born on Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, but moved to Pendeen in west Cornwall as a one-year-old after his fisherman father drowned. This is where he met Richard Oates, and...

Jan 21, 2023 · It was founded by Cornish miners John Deason and Richard Oates in Victoria, Australia. John Deason and Richard Oates were two men who managed to catch gold fever back in the mid-1800s. At this time in history, thousands …

Mar 27, 2024 · The world's largest gold nugget ever (called "Welcome Stranger") was discovered by miners John Deason and Richard Oates in Australia.

On February 1869, two British prospectors, John Deason and Richard Oates, were digging for gold in central Victoria, Australia, when their pickaxe struck something hard very near the surface.

Feb 3, 2020 · On this day 151 years ago the world's biggest alluvial gold nugget was discovered by prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul in Victoria.

The 'Welcome Stranger' was found on 5 February 1869 by Cornish miner John Deason, who was working in Bulldog Gully, near Moliagul in central Victoria. While searching around the roots of a tree he discovered, 3 cm below the surface, a gold nugget.

Dec 1, 2014 · A monument commemorates Richard Oates, a Cornish prospector, who discovered the "Welcome Stranger" gold nugget with John Deason near Moliagul, Victoria in 1869. The Welcome Stranger is the biggest alluvial gold nugget found, which had a calculated refined weight of 3,123 oz 6 dwts 9 gr (71.018 kg).

Attention has been already directed to the many large pieces of gold which have been found in the neighborhood of Dun- olly; and, when the printing of this work was nearly completed, on the 5th...