2024-04-18 05:50:00
John Deason, born in Cornwall, England, and Richard Oates, both Cornish tin miners before migrating to Australia in the 1850s to find Yellow. In February 1869, while they were digging for gold in Victoria, their pickaxe hit a hard object, and they discovered a ingoing giant. This block of gold is about 60cm long and nearly 30cm wide. They decided to keep their discovery a secret and fired the block of gold to remove the layer of black quartz covering the surface. After the block of gold was processed, they took it to the bank, but the block of gold was too large and had to be divided into three parts. This block of gold named “Welcome Stranger” was later sold to the bank for the equivalent of more than 9,500 pounds, approximately the average salary of a person working for 43 years at that time. After this discovery, Deason continued mining gold and became a storekeeper at Moliagal, while Oates returned to England and lived out his life there. Although Deason’s fortune was later lost due to investment mistakes, the memory of the gold discovery “Welcome Stranger” is still preserved through memorials at many locations. Suzie Deason, the fourth descendant of John Deason, still lives in Moliagal and shares that people still come here hoping to find the same fortune. like her grandfather. However, she also said that the family was not rich and did not have any jewelry made from Welcome Stranger’s gold.We invite readers to watch more videos: Revealing the “treasure mountain” filled with gold and precious stones of Russia.
John Deason, born in Cornwall, England, and Richard Oates, both Cornish tin miners before migrating to Australia in the 1850s to find Yellow. In February 1869, while they were digging for gold in Victoria, their pickaxe hit a hard object, and they discovered a ingoing giant.
This block of gold is about 60cm long and nearly 30cm wide. They decided to keep this discovery a secret and burned the gold block to remove the layer of black quartz covering the surface.
After the block of gold was processed, they took it to the bank, but the block of gold was too large and had to be divided into three parts.
This block of gold named “Welcome Stranger” was then sold to the bank for the equivalent of more than 9,500 pounds, approximately the average salary of a person working for 43 years at that time.
After this discovery, Deason continued mining gold and became a storekeeper at Moliagal, while Oates returned to England and lived out the rest of his life there.
Although Deason’s fortune was later lost due to investment mistakes, the memory of the “Welcome Stranger” gold discovery is still preserved through memorials at many locations.
Suzie Deason, the fourth descendant of John Deason, still lives in Moliagal and shares that people still come here hoping to find fortune like her grandfather.
However, she also said that the family was not rich and did not have any jewelry made from Welcome Stranger’s gold.
We invite readers to watch more videos: Revealing the “treasure mountain” filled with gold and precious stones of Russia.
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