No-name nugget, found at Eureka, Daul-…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

as sold for $5,620. It was found by a runaway sailor, who sold it for the sum named, and spent the money in just four weeks. No-name nugget, found at Eureka, Daul- ton’s Flat, Feb. 7, 1874, 50 feet below the sur- face, weighed 52 pounds 1 ounce and was sold for $12,500. The Leg of Mutton nugget was found at Ballarat, Jan. 31, 1853, at a depth of 65 feet. It weighed 134 pounds 11 ounces, and was sold to the bank for $32,380. This nugget was shaped like a leg of mutton hence the name. No-name nugget, found at Bakery Hill, Ballarat, March 5, 1855, near the surface, weighed 47 pounds 7 ounces, and was sold for $11,420. No-Name nugget, found in Canadian Gully, Ballarat, Jan. 22, 1853, at a depth of 25 feet, weighed 84 pounds 3 ounces 15 pennyweights, and was sold for $29,236. The Kohinoor nugget, found at Ballarat, July 27, 1860, at a depth of 160 feet from the surface, weighed 69 pounds, and was sold for $16,680. Sir Dominic Daly nugget, found Feb. 27, 1862, weighed 26 pounds, and sold for $5,240. No-Name nugget, found at Ballarat, Feb. 28, 1885, only sixteen feet below the surface. The discovery was made by a small boy. The nugget weighed 30 pounds and 2 pennyweights, and sold for $7,365. No-Name nugget, found at Weebville, Aug. 1, 1869, weighed 12 pounds, worth $2,280.